Downloading MovieLens datasets
There is a great research lab center that began in 1992 in Minneapolis, MN called GroupLens, which focuses on recommendation engines and has graciously put together millions of rows of data over several years from the MovieLens website. We will use its dataset as our data source for training our recommendation engine model.
Getting ready
The MovieLens dataset is housed and maintained by GroupLens on the following website:
https://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/.
It is important to note that the dataset we will use will come directly from their website and not from a third-party intermediary or repository. Additionally, there are two different datasets that are available for us to query:
- Recommended for new research
- Recommended for education and development
The purpose of using this dataset is purely for educational purposes, so we will download the data from the education and development
section of the website. The educational data still contains a significant number...