I was surprised to hear that you have two different ideas first of all.
I thought the movie proposal was more interesting but I could see the Earthquake proposal being more meaningful. I like that you were able to identify a computational issue in structural analysis and determine that you could solve the problem with learning!
My concern with the movie proposal is that it might be overdone and the data might not be terribly big with only 5000 movies. It sounds messy because as you mentioned it has several different types of features that might require some feature engineering.
I was surprised to hear that you have two different ideas first of all.
I thought the movie proposal was more interesting but I could see the Earthquake proposal being more meaningful. I like that you were able to identify a computational issue in structural analysis and determine that you could solve the problem with learning!
My concern with the movie proposal is that it might be overdone and the data might not be terribly big with only 5000 movies. It sounds messy because as you mentioned it has several different types of features that might require some feature engineering.