I can vouch for their blurb on CMX in Miami. Truly rapacious experience. $28 and the popcorn isn't free, and service was awful (food delivered in the last 15 minutes of a 2-hour movie after ordering before the movie started). /rant
This is really interesting, even as someone who is not from the US.<p>I find it astonishing that it's only 13 bucks for a movie ticket over there (around 11 euros). Here in Finland tickets can easily cost over 20e if you see a movie on the weekend.
Is this the same technology that was used by Yipit to aggregate daily deals back in the Groupon/Living Social days? What languages do you support and how are you different from scrapinghub.com ?
Is the author aware that the prices depend on the day of the week? Competition in Utah has driven all the big theaters to charge only $5 for all movies every Tuesday, making the movies cheaper than even Wyoming. I'm curious to learn whether the same thing has happened elsewhere.
very cool! I always wanted to know these things more often<p>I've done the SF/NYC/Miami circuit, completely skipping the heartland like everyone else, and these ticket prices are baked into my budget.<p>Oh you want 3D/Special Sound System/random perk? Prepare for $22 and I'm okay with that<p>For the actual residents of these cities, there isn't often a place for you to watch something you chose to see in a loud usually spacious environment. These are still undervalued entertainment experiences, amongst the sea of entertainment choices, for actual city residents.<p>I wonder what the industry's own pricing models show
Tangent, but I wish someone would disrupt the movie ticket industry. Fandango's mobile app is one of the worst apps that I've ever seen: it's very unresponsive and full of advertisements, spams and interstitials I do not care about. And yet it's the only way to buy tickets in my area.<p>I mean I'm already using the app to spend money, why not offer me a good experience instead of bombarding me with crappy ads?
How did you verify that you got all the theaters?<p>Having looked at the code in regards to only using zip codes that end in 1 in order to eliminate overlapping neighborhoods, it seems like you missed some.<p>Why not grab all of them and clean the data? Maybe it is too intensive, but insisting you have "all of Fandango's movie listings" is actually false.
This is a really cool example of ReadyPipe - It's a great demo of scraping a site that's got some intent not to be scrapeable :D<p>On the other hand, your data just seems to follow <a href="https://xkcd.com/1138/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/1138/</a> - What happens to the prices if you adjust for cost of living index? What about if you adjust just for population? It looks to me just like a Cost-of-Living heatmap.
>> Only cities with 500,000 residents or more (per Wikipedia) were included in this analysis<p>So 35 cities?
Interesting read none the less. Good to see independent theaters are still doing well.