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A User-Based CF Recommender in Python

A User-Based CF Recommender in Python
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import pandas as pd
from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similarity
pd.set_option('display.width', None)

# 0 Load the movies and ratings datasets into two data frames.
movies = pd.read_csv('movies.csv', usecols=['movieId', 'title'])
ratings = pd.read_csv('ratings.csv', usecols=['userId', 'movieId', 'rating'])

# 0 Merge two data frames on the movie ID.
movie_rating = movies.merge(ratings, on='movieId')

# 1 Create a pivot table where rows are users and columns are movies
user_movie_rating = movie_rating.pivot_table(
index = "userId",columns = "title",values = "rating")

# 1 Replace missing values with zeros.
user_movie_rating.fillna(0, inplace=True)

# 2. Compute the cosine similarity matrix between users
user_sim_matrix = cosine_similarity(user_movie_rating)

# Define a function to get the top-k most similar users to a given user
def get_top_similar_users(user_id, k=10):
# Get the similarity scores for the given user
user_sim_scores = list(enumerate(user_sim_matrix[user_id]))
# Sort the list of similarity scores in descending order
user_sim_scores = sorted(user_sim_scores, key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
# Return the top-k most similar users
return user_sim_scores[1:k+1]

# Define a function to generate recommendations for a given user
def recommend_movies(user_id, k=10):
# Get the top-k most similar users to the given user
similar_users = get_top_similar_users(user_id, k)
# Create an empty dictionary to store movie recommendations and their scores
recommendations = {}
# Loop over the top-k most similar users
for user in similar_users:
# Get the movies rated by the current user
user_movies = user_movie_rating.loc[user[0]]
# Loop over the movies rated by the current user
for movie_id, rating in user_movies.items():
# Skip movies the current user has already rated
if rating == 0:
# Add the movie to the recommendations dictionary if it hasn't been recommended before
if movie_id not in recommendations:
recommendations[movie_id] = 0
# Update the score of the movie based on the similarity between the current user and the given user
recommendations[movie_id] += user[1]
# Sort the recommendations dictionary in descending order by score and return the top-k movies
return sorted(recommendations.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)[:k]

user_movie_rating.shape
user_movie_rating.sample(10)
user_movie_rating.iloc[:, 0:4].sample(10)
user_movie_rating[['Ice Age (2002)', 'Crimson Tide (1995)']].sample(10)
user_movie_rating[['Forrest Gump (1994)', 'Pulp Fiction (1994)', 'Fight Club (1999)']].sample(10)
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