re: House of Cards Was Tailor Made for Netflix Users - Literally

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I'm saying it's part of a larger discussion that I really enjoy.

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I gotcha. Just wasn't sure since it was just the link. I thought this was pretty amazing. I know collecting data and making programming that sells has been done for years, but I don't know that I've seen a company say, "Okay, We know people like David Fincher, Kevin Spacey, and BBC dramas." "How?" "We have millions of points of data that allow us to extrapolate this. 90% of our users watch a Kevin Spacey movie to completion and give it high marks. 85% of our users watch a David Fincher movie to completion and give it high marks. The BBC has a show that is not well known in the states, but Americans who have watched it watched the whole series in a span of 5 individual viewings and gave it high marks. This is what we need to do: get Kevin Spacey and David Fincher to collaborate in a remake of House of Cards."

That just baffles me.