Finding movie similarities

Let's apply the concept of item-based collaborative filtering. To start with, movie similarities-figure out what movies are similar to other movies. In particular, we'll try to figure out what movies are similar to Star Wars, based on user rating data, and we'll see what we get out of it. Let's dive in!

Okay so, let's go ahead and compute the first half of item-based collaborative filtering, which is finding similarities between items. Download and open the SimilarMovies.ipynb file.

In this case, we're going to be looking at similarities between movies, based on user behavior. And, we're going to be using some real ...

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