Hollywood Stock Exchange & Box Office Data

Context

From HSX.com:

Hollywood Stock Exchange® (www.hsx.com) is the world's leading entertainment stock market. At HSX.com, visitors buy and sell virtual shares of celebrities and movies with a currency called the Hollywood Dollar®. The Company's Virtual Specialist® technology allows an unlimited number of consumers to trade thousands of virtual entertainment securities in a fair and orderly, supply-and-demand-based market. HSX syndicates the data collected from the Exchange as market research to entertainment, consumer product and financial institutions and as original content to radio, television and print media. Founded in 1996, HSX is now headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

The data in this data set were scraped from HSX.com and BoxOfficeMojo.com. These data can be used to train models which predict the price of movie stocks, thus enabling players to trade those predictions.

Content

There are four files in this data set:

• boxofficemojo_daily_boxoffice.csv: Daily domestic box office results by movie (from BoxOfficeMojo.com)
• boxofficemojo_releases.csv: Master data of movie releases (from BoxOfficeMojo.com)
• hsx_movie_master.csv: Master data of movies from HSX.com
• hsx_movie_prices.csv: hourly movie stock prices from HSX.com (beware: discontinuities exist)

Acknowledgements

HSX.com and BoxOfficeMojo.com

Inspiration

Use these data to build ML models that will allow you to achieve domination on HSX.com. If you like stock market simulations and games, you will love HSX!