Why would you choose Taiwan for the knowledge test and name it as a "country"?

[danceoncloud]

Hello,

I was following the online training and for "Intermediate Cypher Queries", under the "Pipeline Queries", "Taiwan Movies", in the country list I saw "Taiwan" which is annoying and so wrong. I don't care about your real opinion about this politically sensitive subject, but amongst all the countries in your list, is it really necessary to choose this one for the knowledge test?

I really hope that this can be replaced by another name and I appreciate that a lot if you can make this little effort.
I'm contactable if necessary.

Ming ZHAO

[martinohanlon]

Apologies if the content of our course has offended you.

The data in the movie (or recommendations) dataset is obtained from imdb / https://www.themoviedb.org/ - an open dataset of movies, it is not one we have created ourselves.

The countries property represents the production country (i.e. where the film was produced). You can read the definition here - https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/movie/59f3b16d9251414f20000008#59f73d639251416e71000018, which includes the following regarding accuracy:

Many countries and borders have changed since the beginning of film. When available, please choose the producing country as it was named at the time of production. For example, Soviet Union is added to films originally produced in the Soviet Union (1922–1991). Czech films produced before 1993 typically have Czechoslovakia as their country.

You may also note that countries such as Yugoslavia and West Germany are also included.

It is not feasible for us to sanitise the data for every potential issue and believe there is greater benefit to using an open un-changed dataset than the potential risk it could create.

[martinohanlon]

I do however take your feedback onboard regarding the selection of the country for the question and will look to adapt the question when the course is next updated.

[danceoncloud]

Hi @martinohanlon,
Thank you for taking my message into account and I want to apologize if you were bothered.
Also I want to thank you for clarifying your plan about changing the content, I know this action will cause extra effort and you are only 2 persons for maintaining the Academy community. I really appreciate that.
Please take my message as a kind reminder to keep non relevant sensitive subjects outside of our pure technique world, I had and have no negative impression against anyone concerned.
Have a good day.
Ming