Chapter 7. Movie Recommendation System Web Application

The purpose of this chapter is to explain a real case example of the recommendation system in action, using the Django framework. We are going to implement a movie recommendation system in which each user that subscribes to the service will receive suggested movies based on his preferences as we have discussed in Chapter 5, Recommendation systems, also we are going to use the same data which consists of 603 movies rated more than 50 times by 942 users. In order to receive recommendations, each user has to rate a certain number of movies, so an information retrieval system (Chapter 4, Web-mining techniques) to search the movies to rate is implemented. The different parts of the Django application are going to be discussed: settings, models, user login/logout, commands, information retrieval system, recommendation systems, an admin interface and APIs (all the code is available on the GitHub of the author chapter_7 folder at...