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Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python Start building powerful and personalized, recommendation engines with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993753
Length 146 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rounak Banik Rounak Banik
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Plot description-based recommender

Our plot description-based recommender will take in a movie title as an argument and output a list of movies that are most similar based on their plots. These are the steps we are going to perform in building this model:

  1. Obtain the data required to build the model
  2. Create TF-IDF vectors for the plot description (or overview) of every movie
  3. Compute the pairwise cosine similarity score of every movie
  4. Write the recommender function that takes in a movie title as an argument and outputs movies most similar to it based on the plot

Preparing the data

In its present form, the DataFrame, although clean, does not contain the features that are required to build the plot description-based recommender...

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