Netflix Data set

Question

One of the canonical examples of a big data competition was the Netflix prize data set. It seems to have disappeared from the Internet. Is that the case, or is it still accessible somewhere?

Answer 1

It appears that the Netflix data set is no longer available. According to the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository:

Note from donor regarding Netflix data: "Thank you for your interest in the Netflix Prize dataset. The dataset is no longer available." - http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/noteNetflix.txt

BUT WAIT, there's more... perhaps it is available as an archive - https://archive.org/details/nf_prize_dataset.tar

BUT WAIT, EVEN MORE, it is also up on the archive in its true form:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090925184737/http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Netflix+Prize

Answer 2

Another way to obtain the data:

http://academictorrents.com/details/9b13183dc4d60676b773c9e2cd6de5e5542cee9a

Answer 3

The training data is also now hosted on Kaggle. The per movie files are combined into 4 large txt files which is potentially more convenient. I'm not seeing the qualifying/test data anywhere, maybe Netflix never released that?

Answer 4

yeah, training data (nf_prize_dataset.tar.gz) is available, but testing data - no (grand_prize.tar.gz). even on https://web.archive.org/web/20090926031123/http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/netflix