Can Web‑Scraped Movie Reviews Predict Box Office? A Python Data‑Mining Case Study
Using Python to scrape over ten thousand Maoyan comments for the comedy film “The Billionaire” (西虹市首富), this article demonstrates data cleaning, geographic heat‑maps, city‑wise rating analysis, word‑cloud generation, and a simple box‑office forecast based on a comparable movie, illustrating practical web‑scraping and data‑mining techniques.
