Mastering Python for Data Science

User-based collaborative filtering

Let's start to build a user-based collaborative filter by finding users who are similar to each other.

Finding similar users

When you have data about what people like, you need a way to determine the similarity between different users. The similarity between different users is determined by comparing each user with every other user and computing a similarity score. This similarity score can be computed using the Pearson correlation, the Euclidean distance, the Manhattan distance, and so on.

The Euclidean distance score

The Euclidean distance is the minimum distance between two points in space. Let's try to understand this by plotting the users who have watched Django Unchained and Avengers.

We'll create a DataFrame ...