Reverse Engineering the Essence of Hollywood Films at Netflix [Classis]
People are talking about Alexis Madrigal’s excellent investigative piece into Netflix’s content ontology and architecture. You know those super-specific genre categories that Netflix recommends to you? I watch “Bowling for Columbine” and Netflix recommends to me other “Critically-acclaimed Fight-the-System Documentaries” such as “Gasland.” There’s “Cerebral Foreign Horror Movies,” and “Witty Dysfunctional-Family TV Animated Comedies,” for …