Scaling down our dataset
Training machine learning models at scale usually requires (lots of) powerful computers and plenty of time. If you have neither of these while reading this book, I have prepared a smaller dataset so that you can go through our project.
Training the recommender on the full top_ratings data took over 24 hours on my quad-core, 16 GB RAM laptop. If you're so inclined, feel free to try it. It is also available for download at https://github.com/TrainingByPackt/Julia-1-Programming-Complete-Reference-Guide/blob/master/Chapter16/data/large/top_ratings.csv.zip?raw=true.
However, if you'd like to follow through the code while reading this chapter, please download the top_ratings.csv file that's provided with this chapter's ...
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