TV Mini Series · 2021 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
The Billion Dollar Code
Scored from 66 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).
Summary
A four-part German limited series told across two timelines, about the Berlin origins of a 3D digital globe. In the early 1990s, media artist Carsten Schlüter and Chaos Computer Club hacker Juri Müller meet in the city's post-reunification art and techno scene and build Terravision, which lets a user spin a virtual Earth and zoom from orbit down to street level, demonstrated in 1994 on hardware almost nobody could access. Two decades later the two men, long estranged, sit with American lawyers preparing a patent suit against Google, claiming Google Earth was built on what they invented. The drama cuts between invention and courtroom, setting friendship and credit against an opponent with unlimited counsel.
The Billion Dollar Code is a 2021 biography, crime and drama miniseries. A typical episode runs 48 minutes. It was made in Germany. It is rated TV-14. Its listed language is German.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2020s miniseries — 1,094 of them. Only 66 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 70 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Billion Dollar Code lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 66.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
