The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) maintains a chart called the IMDB Top 250, which is a ranking of the top 250 movies according to a certain scoring metric. All the movies in this list are non-documentary, theatrical releases with a runtime of at least 45 minutes and over 250,000 ratings:
This chart can be considered the simplest of recommenders. It doesn't take into consideration the tastes of a particular user, nor does it try to deduce similarities between different movies. It simply calculates a score for every movie based on a predefined metric and outputs a sorted list of movies based on that score.
In this chapter, we will be covering the following:
- Building a clone of the IMDB Top 250 chart (henceforth referred to as the simple recommender).
- Taking the functionalities of the chart one step further and building a knowledge...
