The team

The VOD Clickstream project has been three years in the making. Many amazing people have been involved behind the scenes to bring this project to life.

Below are our principal team who have created the project you see today. This multidisciplinary team has a truly international flavour, brought together by their love of film and data science.

Stephen Follows

Stephen Follows

Founder

Stephen is a renowned data researcher in the film industry whose work has been widely covered in numerous major publications. He has acted as an industry consultant and guest on the BBC Radio 4 series The Business of Film, which topped the iTunes podcast chart, and has consulted for a wide variety of clients.

Dr José Eliel Camargo-Molina

Dr José Eliel Camargo-Molina

Data Scientist

Dr. Camargo-Molina is a theoretical physicist working on how some of the “largest” things in the universe (such as vacuum energy or dark matter) are related to the “tiniest” ones (such as the Higgs boson or quarks). He is part of GAMBIT, a world-leading collaboration using supercomputers to study how novel theories stack up when confronted with real data. He is also co-founder and director of Art & Science Initiative, an organisation that fosters interdisciplinary collaborations.

Jack Tann

Jack Tann

Data Analyst

Jack is a trained data scientist with a background in theoretical physics. He is particularly interested in using machine learning and data visualisation to facilitate understanding of complex data. Projects include an interactive app to visualise running habits and a large-scale recommendation system using movie review data.
Dr Alejandro Celis

Dr Alejandro Celis

Machine Learning Scientist

Dr Alejandro Celis gained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Valencia.  He has since worked for a number of leading European Fintech companies as a data scientist. His specific area of interest is machine learning and its data applications.

 

Victoria Myerscough

Victoria Myerscough

Project Manager

Victoria is a marketing consultant and writer. She has worked with a number of leading brands in the public and private sectors. Having studied film at a postgraduate level, she founded the award winning website The Book, The Film, The T-Shirt in 2012.  Victoria also runs workshops for independent filmmakers on how to create marketing and influencer campaigns to promote their work. 

What is VOD Clickstream?

Our unique clickstream data allows us to analyse viewing patterns on Netflix between January 2016 and June 2019.

This data has some powerful qualities and unusual limitations so be sure to check out the details here.

This is wholly independent research. We’re not affiliated with Netflix or any other streaming platform or studio.