The MovieLens dataset is made publicly available by GroupLens Research, a computer science lab at the University of Minnesota. It is one of the most popular benchmark datasets used to test the potency of various collaborative filtering models and is usually available in most recommender libraries and packages:
MovieLens gives us user ratings on a variety of movies and is available in various sizes. The full version consists of more than 26,000,000 ratings applied to 45,000 movies by 270,000 users. However, for the sake of fast computation, we will be using the much smaller 100,000 dataset, which contains 100,000 ratings ...
