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Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning Perform data mining and machine learning efficiently using Python and Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280748
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Statistics and Probability Refresher, and Python Practice 3. Matplotlib and Advanced Probability Concepts 4. Predictive Models 5. Machine Learning with Python 6. Recommender Systems 7. More Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques 8. Dealing with Real-World Data 9. Apache Spark - Machine Learning on Big Data 10. Testing and Experimental Design

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Okay, let's actually build a full-blown recommender system that can look at all the behavior information of everybody in the system, and what movies they rated, and use that to actually produce the best recommendation movies for any given user in our dataset. Kind of amazing and you'll be surprised how simple it is. Let's go!

Let's begin using the ItemBasedCF.ipynb file and let's start off by importing the MovieLens dataset that we have. Again, we're using a subset of it that just contains 100,000 ratings for now. But, there are larger datasets you can get from GroupLens.org-up to millions of ratings; if you're so inclined. Keep in mind though, when you start to deal with that really big data, you're going to be pushing the limits of what you can do in a single machine and what Pandas can handle. Without...

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