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In this liveProject, you’ll build a movie recommendation system based on the content and metadata of movies in your system. This system is intended to maximize the satisfaction of your movie-watching users. You’ll start with an analysis to determine the content of your movies, then use that data to implement content-based similarities for both products and users. You’ll build and evaluate your recommender system based on these connections, till it’s the best it can be!
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
book and video resources
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prerequisites
The liveProject is for intermediate Python programmers who know the basics of data science. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS
- Intermediate Python, min. version 3.6.0
- Basics of data structures
- Basics of NumPy, min. version 1.19.0
- Basics of pandas, min. version 1.1.0
- Basics of scikit-learn, min. version 0.20.3
- Basics of Jupyter Notebook
- Algebra and calculus
- Basics of machine learning
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll learn how to build powerful recommendation systems using the most popular tools in the Python data ecosystem.
- Read, process, and exploit user-item data
- Define and compute similarities between users and items using content and metadata
- Define recommender systems based on the definition of when two users or items are close
- Analyze algorithm output
- Tune model settings to improve its results
features
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- You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
- Project roadmap
- Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
- Get Help
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- Compare with others
- For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
- book resources
- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
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Content-Based Similarities project for free
Content-Based Similarities project for free
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Content-Based Similarities project for free
