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Practical Data Science Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Practical Data Science Cookbook, Second Edition Data pre-processing, analysis and visualization using R and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129627
Length 434 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Anthony Ojeda Anthony Ojeda
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Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar
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ABHIJIT DASGUPTA ABHIJIT DASGUPTA
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Sean P Murphy Sean P Murphy
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Bhushan Purushottam Joshi Bhushan Purushottam Joshi
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparing Your Data Science Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Driving Visual Analysis with Automobile Data with R 3. Creating Application-Oriented Analyses Using Tax Data and Python 4. Modeling Stock Market Data 5. Visually Exploring Employment Data 6. Driving Visual Analyses with Automobile Data 7. Working with Social Graphs 8. Recommending Movies at Scale (Python) 9. Harvesting and Geolocating Twitter Data (Python) 10. Forecasting New Zealand Overseas Visitors 11. German Credit Data Analysis

Understanding the data


Understanding your data is critical to all data-related work. In this recipe, we will acquire and take a first look at the data that we will be using to build our recommendation engine.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, and the rest of the chapter, download the MovieLens data from the GroupLens website of the University of Minnesota. You can find the data at http://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/ .

In this chapter, we will use the smaller MoveLens 100k dataset (4.7 MB in size) in order to load the entire model into the memory with ease.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to better understand the data that we will be working with throughout this chapter:

  1. Download the data from http://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/ . The 100K dataset is the one that you want (ml-100k.zip):

  1. Unzip the downloaded data into the directory of your choice.
  2. The two files that we are mainly concerned with are u.data, which contains the user movie ratings, and u.item, which contains...
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