The New York Times has a set of infographics showing the popularity of certain movies distributed in the zip codes of several cities, based on their incidence of Netflix rental. Netflix provided this data on the fifty most popular movies of 2009. Hover over each map to see what movies were the most popular in neighborhoods of a city. The infographic above shows the distribution of Yes Man rentals in Atlanta, Georgia.
Link via Fast Company
How is this good service?? its annoying!
Reminds me of the titanic... too many people...not enough boats.
And of course cross analyzing those data with sociological data (income, race as Colin put it, age...) is a project in itself that would be very interesting, no doubt.