Feature #4: Popularity Analysis
Explore how to analyze the popularity of Netflix titles over time by using Java to identify increasing or decreasing trends in score arrays. Understand how to process weekly popularity data and efficiently separate steady, gaining, and losing titles. This lesson helps you apply array traversal and logic to solve real-world feature problems relevant for coding interviews.
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Description
Netflix maintains a popularity score for each of its titles. This popularity score is derived from customer feedback, likes, dislikes, etc. This score is updated weekly and added to the end of an array containing previous scores for the same title. This score array helps Netflix identify titles that may be increasing or decreasing in popularity over time. Some titles may be steady in popularity, increasing, decreasing, and fluctuating. We want to identify and separate a title if it is gaining or losing popularity.
We’ll be provided with an array of integers representing the popularity scores of a movie collected over a number of weeks. We need to identify only ...