MovieLens - movie recommendation service with fine tuning
Web Services / / December 24, 2019
MovieLens - is a voluntary system that will offer you a movie based on your assessments and evaluations of people with similar estimates (in other words, using collaborative filtering). It was launched at the University of Minnesota research purposes. There is no advertising, and the list of recommendations is surprising unprecedented names.
Recommendations films offer many Russian-language services, such as "Imhonet"And"poster Mail.ruยป. However, even the most popular - "kinopoisk"- gives me good advice often. Usually you have to look yourself in the various lists (best films, directors, actors). And advertising on half of the screen is already annoying procedure.
In MovieLens this things are much better. After filling out a short registration form, the service offered to choose your favorite genres and distribute all three points.
MovieLens then tried to guess my assessment popular and newly released movies, and I had to correct them. With the course it could be done for about 15% of the proposed films. But after 15 otsenonnyh movie service informed that the proposals have been updated.
I then was able to estimate about one-third of the proposed films. Hoping for a new message about updating the recommendations, I assessed another 50 films. But the miracle did not happen - for more accurate results still have to evaluate a lot of movies.
However, after the first acquaintance with the service I noticed that the recommended movies - is not only commercially successful pictures that are already on the ear. This is true even for new films. Choose a few.
Now MovieLens contains more than 20 million assessments. For full descriptions of films have, however, in English. Also, there is a search by name, genre, tags. The latter is useful for finer search than regular search by genre, are often blurred.
What is particularly noteworthy MovieLens, so it is fine-tuned search for movies, similar to the one you like. You can increase or decrease the proposed criteria or define your own. For example, I like film "Birdman". MovieLens suggested ribbon, two of which I have already watched and they really liked me, and the other two I can see. Hooray!
In MovieLens only one insignificant flaw: no descriptions of films in Russian. Therefore, the details will have to specify separately. However, when trying to find a good tape for home viewing, all means are good, and here to find something such more chances.