One of the pleasures of running a data business is coming across people who use our data in interesting ways.  Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of educators from high school through post-grad who use our database in a variety of ways to teach statistics.

Here’s an article that gives a good overview of teaching using our data in a business school:

Movie Data Journal of Statistics Education Volume 17, Number 1 (2009)

Because time series forecasting is such a universal topic in business statistics classes, we have been intrigued with finding data sets that are both current and meaningful for our students. Although there is certainly a huge amount of financial time series data available, we have found that the movie box office data sets provide excellent examples of those forecasting features typically emphasized in business statistics textbooks: trend, seasonality, cycles, and randomness.