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Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python
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Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python

by Rounak Banik
July 2018
Beginner to intermediate
146 pages
3h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building an IMDB Top 250 Clone with Pandas

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) maintains a chart called the IMDB Top 250, which is a ranking of the top 250 movies according to a certain scoring metric. All the movies in this list are non-documentary, theatrical releases with a runtime of at least 45 minutes and over 250,000 ratings:

This chart can be considered the simplest of recommenders. It doesn't take into consideration the tastes of a particular user, nor does it try to deduce similarities between different movies. It simply calculates a score for every movie based on a predefined metric and outputs a sorted list of movies based on that ...

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