NETFLIX-MOVIE-RECOMMENDATION-SYSTEM

Movie-Recommendation-Netflix

Business Problem

Problem Description

Netflix is all about connecting people to the movies they love. To help customers find those movies, they developed world-class movie recommendation system: CinematchSM. Its job is to predict whether someone will enjoy a movie based on how much they liked or disliked other movies. Netflix use those predictions to make personal movie recommendations based on each customer’s unique tastes. And while Cinematch is doing pretty well, it can always be made better.

Now there are a lot of interesting alternative approaches to how Cinematch works that netflix haven’t tried. Some are described in the literature, some aren’t. We’re curious whether any of these can beat Cinematch by making better predictions. Because, frankly, if there is a much better approach it could make a big difference to our customers and our business.

Credits: https://www.netflixprize.com/rules.html

The goal of this project is to develop a recomendation system #DataScience for Netflix.

Few popular hashtags -

#DataScience #Netflix #Recommendation System

#Ratings #Movie PRediction #Numpy-Pandas

Motivation

Netflix provided a lot of anonymous rating data, and a prediction accuracy bar that is 10% better than what Cinematch can do on the same training data set. (Accuracy is a measurement of how closely predicted ratings of movies match subsequent actual ratings.)

About the Project

• Predict the rating that a user would give to a movie that he ahs not yet rated.
• Minimize the difference between predicted and actual rating (RMSE and MAPE)

Steps involved in this project

• Some form of interpretability.
• Machine Learning Problem
• Data

Data Overview

Get the data from : https://www.kaggle.com/netflix-inc/netflix-prize-data/data

Data files :

• combineddata1.txt
• combineddata2.txt
• combineddata3.txt
• combineddata4.txt
• movie_titles.csv

The first line of each file [combineddata1.txt, combineddata2.txt, combineddata3.txt, combineddata4.txt] contains the movie id followed by a colon. Each subsequent line in the file corresponds to a rating from a customer and its date in the following format:

CustomerID,Rating,Date

MovieIDs range from 1 to 17770 sequentially. CustomerIDs range from 1 to 2649429, with gaps. There are 480189 users. Ratings are on a five star (integral) scale from 1 to 5. Dates have the format YYYY-MM-DD.

Python
Movie by Movie Similarity Matrix
start = datetime.now()
if not os.path.isfile('mmsim_sparse.npz'):
    print("It seems you don't have that file. Computing movie_movie similarity...")
    start = datetime.now()
    mmsimsparse = cosinesimilarity(X=trainsparsematrix.T, dense_output=False)
    print("Done..")
    # store this sparse matrix in disk before using it. For future purposes.
    print("Saving it to disk without the need of re-computing it again.. ")
    sparse.savenpz("mmsimsparse.npz", mmsim_sparse)
    print("Done..")
else:
    print("It is there, We will get it.")
    mmsimsparse = sparse.loadnpz("mmsim_sparse.npz")
    print("Done ...")
print("It's a ",mmsim_sparse.shape," dimensional matrix")
print(datetime.now() - start)

Mapping the real world problem to a Machine Learning Problem

Type of Machine Learning Problem

• For a given movie and user we need to predict the rating would be given by him/her to the movie.
• The given problem is a Recommendation problem
• It can also seen as a Regression problem

Performance metric

• Mean Absolute Percentage Error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanabsolutepercentage_error
• Root Mean Square Error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root-mean-square_deviation

Machine Learning Objective and Constraints

• Minimize RMSE.
• Try to provide some interpretability.

Libraries Used

Installation

• Install datetime using pip command: from datetime import datetime
• Install pandas using pip command: import pandas as pd
• Install numpy using pip command: import numpy as np
• Install matplotlib using pip command: import matplotlib
• Install matplotlib.pyplot using pip command: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
• Install seaborn using pip command: import seaborn as sns
• Install os using pip command: import os
• Install scipy using pip command: from scipy import sparse
• Install scipy.sparse using pip command: from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix
• Install sklearn.decomposition using pip command: from sklearn.decomposition import TruncatedSVD
• Install sklearn.metrics.pairwise using pip command: from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similarity
• Install random using pip command: import random

How to run?

svd               1.0726046873826458
knnbslu         1.0726493739667242
knnbslm          1.072758832653683
svdpp             1.0728491944183447
bsl_algo          1.0730330260516174
xgbknnbsl_mu    1.0753229281412784
xgballmodels     1.075480663561971
first_algo        1.0761851474385373
xgb_bsl           1.0763419061709816
xgb_final         1.0763580984894978
xgbknnbsl       1.0763602465199797
Name: rmse, dtype: object

Project Reports

• Download for the report.

Useful Links

• https://www.netflixprize.com/rules.html
• https://www.kaggle.com/netflix-inc/netflix-prize-data
• Netflix blog: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-recommendations-beyond-the-5-stars-part-1-55838468f429 (very nice blog)
• surprise library: http://surpriselib.com/ (we use many models from this library)
• surprise library doc: http://surprise.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started.html (we use many models from this library)
• installing surprise: https://github.com/NicolasHug/Surprise#installation
• Research paper: http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-dm/s11/SECURE/a1-koren.pdf (most of our work was inspired by this paper)
• SVD Decomposition : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mlg91as1c

Report - A Detailed Report on the Analysis

Contributing

• Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/iamsivab/Movie-Recommendation-Netflix.git

• Check out any issue from here.

• Make changes and send Pull Request.

Need help?

:email: Feel free to contact me @ balasiva001@gmail.com

License

MIT © Sivasubramanian