Asif Youssuff

MovieLens: Personalized Movie Recommendations

I was looking for a good tool to use to review movies and then have that tool provide movie recommendations back on what to watch next. I know Netflix does something like this, but the recommendations are obviously restricted to just the movies available on Netflix.

What do you use, and why?

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MovieLens

It is a research project at the University of Minnesota using collaborative filtering. It’s also open dataset, so I know that I am helping researchers develop new recommendation engines that don’t just get locked up in some closed database somewhere.

Lastly, it’s ad-free and it’s easy to import ratings from IMDB and to export it from MovieLens.


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