An example using the Pandas library
The purpose of this example is to check whether everything is working in your installation and give a flavor of what is to come. We concentrate on the Pandas library, which is the main tool used in Python data analysis.
We will use the MovieTweetings 50K movie ratings dataset, which can be downloaded from https://github.com/sidooms/MovieTweetings. The data is from the study MovieTweetings: a Movie Rating Dataset Collected From Twitter - by Dooms, De Pessemier and Martens presented during Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation for Recommender Systems, CrowdRec at RecSys (2013). The dataset is spread in several text files, but we will only use the following two files:
ratings.dat: This is a double colon-separated ...
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