&gt; they&#x27;d have some inkling as to what&#x27;s currently in demand and what may be underrepresented.<p>My working assumption is that the lessons learned from the prediction engine they&#x27;ve built are a qualitative leap over just &quot;what&#x27;s popular, assuming all of the US is composed of identical viewers.&quot; Or even a few demographic divisions.<p>Eh, I could be wrong though. Maybe this is just a gutcheck, I think Netflix is better at data science than other studios, because they have more experience working with programmers and large datasets.