VAST 2013 Mini-Challenge 1: Box Office VAST - Team VADER

VAST 2013 Mini-Challenge 1 was a rolling competition in which participants would submit a set of weekly predictions for movie revenue and viewer rating. This was a closed world contest in which contestants were provided with a set of Twitter indices, bitly links, and access to the Internet Movie Database. In order to facilitate these predictions, we have created a web-deployable system that combines predictive techniques (multiple linear regression), data mining (sentiment analysis), and interactive visualizations for predicting the opening weekend gross and viewer rating scores of upcoming movies. Taking use this system with human in the loop, we got 4 times top predictor in 11 entries of submission.