Data reports
Ongoing data-journalism series on rating inflation, review-platform drift, and cross-source correlation. All reports published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY) — journalists and researchers are welcome to cite, quote, and republish with attribution.
Published
Planned
Forthcoming reports, scheduled alongside the category launches that motivate them:
Wine-critic disagreement atlas
Systematic analysis of where Wine Spectator, Wine Advocate, and Jancis Robinson disagree by grape × region × vintage. Publication planned for Rankquant's wines launch.
Goodreads genre-inflation time series
10-year trend of average rating by genre on Goodreads. Does literary fiction inflate at a different rate than genre fiction? Publication planned for the books-category launch.
Yelp: verified-vs-non-verified rating gap
Yelp Elite-vetted reviews vs. general-user reviews — distribution-level comparison. Publication planned for the restaurants-category launch.
Booking.com neighborhood-clustered inflation
Does Booking's 8.4 average hold across city types? Cluster analysis by metro size, country, and price tier. Hotel-launch companion report.
Metacritic vs Rotten Tomatoes: information-loss per film
Quantified comparison of information content per film between cardinal (Metacritic) and binary (Tomatometer) aggregation, calibrated on a shared sample.
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All Rankquant data reports are licensed under CC-BY 4.0 — republish, cite, or remix with attribution to Rankquant + a link to the original report URL. For data-access questions or collaboration, email [email protected].