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# Contents¶

1. Key pointers
3. Papers of the winning soution
4. Problem statement
6. Cleaning the data
7. EDA

## Parent problem¶

Dataset from Netflix Prize Data competition to improve their recommendation system.

Original blog: [http://netflixprize.com/index.html]
Kaggle blog: [https://www.kaggle.com/netflix-inc/netflix-prize-data]

### Some key pointers:¶

• It was a competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user rating of films.
• Training dataset of 100,480,507 ratings that 480,189 users gave to 17,770 movies.
• Size of matrix is ~8.5 Billion, ~100 Million points present, ~8.4 Billion points missing.
• Highly sparse
• Qualifying dataset, 2,817,131 points.
• Triplet format (user, movie, date of grade)
• The ratings have been withheld.

### Deeper into Qualifying dataset:¶

• Divided into two parts 'Quiz' and 'Test'.
• Score for Quiz dataset was mentioned.
• The contents of the ‘Quiz’ and ‘Test’ dataset has been kept confidential to prevent hill climb(local optimization).
• Performance on the test dataset will determine the winner.
• Predictions can be real values

1. The final algorithm must predict all the ratings the customer gave, from the Qualifying dataset.
2. Reduce the RMSE on the Qualifying dataset.
3. Try to beat Cinematch by 10%.

## Our take on the problem:¶

• The original data from the netflix blog came in more than 17000 files.
• Kaggle combines the training data and provides us in 4 different files.
• The qualifying dataset doesn’t have the ‘ground truth’ and hence we can’t test our model on it.
• Way around it is, to use the probe set that netflix has provided.[Note: Separate it from the training dataset first]
• Or, sample and separate from the training set.

### Understanding of the data:¶

1. Movie_titles.csv
2. Combined_data_1.txt
3. Combined_data_2.txt
4. Combined_data_3.txt
5. Combined_data_4.txt
6. Probe.txt
7. Qualifying.txt

Filename: Movie_titles.csv
Format : (MovieID, Year, Title)
Description of features:
MovieID is an integer ranging from 1 to 17,770 and present in a sequential fashion. This does neither correspond with Imdb movie ID or Netflix movie ID. Year is the Year of release of the corresponding DVD and may not be the theatrical release. It is an integer and ranges from 1890 to 2005. Title is a the Netflix movie title in english. It’s in string format.

Filename: Combined_data_1.txt
Format: MovieID:
CustomerID,Score,Date
Description of features:
MovieID is same a in Movie_titles.csv CustomerID is an integer ranging from 1 to 2649429. These are not the actual Netflix CustomerID. They have been changed due to privacy issues. Score is the integral number of stars the user rated to that particular movie. Date is the date of grading. It is in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

Filename: Qualifying.txt
Format: MovieID:
CustomerID,Date
Description of features:
MovieID is same a in Movie_titles.csv CustomerID is an integer ranging from 1 to 2649429. These are not the actual Netflix CustomerID. They have been changed due to privacy issues. Date is the date of grading. It is in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

Probe data is basically a subset of the training dataset. Format: MovieID: CustomerID

### What we hope to do with the ‘Netflix prize data’ [PROBLEM STATEMENT]:¶

1. Predict ratings that a particular user might give to an unrated movie.
2. Recommend him top 5 movies that he might rate highly.

## Challenges:¶

The data was present in a compressed fashion. From there it had to be converted to a tabular format. Upon doing so, the size became more than 3.5gb. Due to limited hardware it was impossible to work on the complete dataset. Therefore only the first file (combine_data_1.txt) was chosen

Note: Over the whole notebook, you'll find me deleting variables. This was done due to the limitations of hardware

I wrote a small script to change the file format so that it's easier to work with

## Modifying the data¶

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'''
fopen = open("combined_data_1.txt",'r')
fwrite = open("Whole_dataset1.txt",'a+')

fopen.seek(0); fwrite.seek(0)

fwrite.writelines('CustomerID,Score,Date,MovieID\n')

line = line.strip()
if(line[-1] == ':'):
movie_id = line[:-1]
else:
fwrite.writelines(line+','+movie_id+'\n')

fopen.close(); fwrite.close()
'''
print

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<function print>
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from sys import getsizeof

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import pandas as pd

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'''This Data analysis is done on a part of the data and not the whol
due to the limitations in the hardware'''


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df.columns

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Index(['CustomerID', 'Score', 'Date', 'MovieID'], dtype='object')
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'''Showing 5 random samples'''
df.sample(n=5)

Out[7]:
CustomerID Score Date MovieID
10849859 1994448 4 2005-06-19 2122
9836018 2605904 4 2005-09-15 1905
8612860 616242 5 2005-05-17 1719
5790063 1591015 1 2002-08-06 1145
17852461 1638551 5 2004-08-14 3421
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print ('Number of ratings: {}\nUnique Customers: {}\nNumber of movies: {}'\
.format(df.shape[0],len(set(df.CustomerID)),len(set(df.MovieID))))

Number of ratings: 24053764
Unique Customers: 470758
Number of movies: 4499


So we can see there are 24,053,764 elements in the sparse matrix of size 470758x4499.
Therefore only 1.13% of the matrix is filled.

## Checking for Missing Values:¶

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import numpy as np
np.where(df.isnull())

Out[9]:
(array([], dtype=int64), array([], dtype=int64))
No missing values

# Checking Duplicates:¶

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df.duplicated().sum()

Out[10]:
0
No duplicates in the dataset

## Plots:¶

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import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

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'''Plotting the histogram of scores'''
plt.figure(figsize=(12,6))
plt.hist(x=list(df.Score),bins=[1,2,3,4,5,6],rwidth=0.9,normed=True,color='#0097D9');
plt.xticks([1.5,2.5,3.5,4.5,5.5],[1,2,3,4,5])
plt.title('Distribution of Scores',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.xlabel('Score'); plt.ylabel('Percentage')
plt.savefig('Distribution_of_scores.png')
plt.show()


So we can see 4(~33%) stars is given the most, then 3(~28%) stars, then 5(~22.5%), then 2(~10%) and at last 1(~5%)

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'''Loading the year of movies'''
year_of_movies = year_of_movies[:4499]


While trying to plot the distribution of the year of movie releases, we found out that there were some missing data in year column in the movie_titles.csv file, also the titles of the movie had some encoding errors, so we had to drop the entire column during analysis.

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'''Dropping the Null values in year'''
import math
l = len(year_of_movies); i = 0
while(i<l):
if(math.isnan(year_of_movies[i])):
year_of_movies.pop(i)
else:
i += 1
l = len(year_of_movies)

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'''Plotting the distribution of number of movie released in the years'''
plt.figure(figsize=(12,6))
plt.title('Distribution of dates of movie release',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.savefig('Distribution_of_movie_release.png')
plt.show()


We can conclude that most of the movies in our dataset had released during the 20's.

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'''Retrieving the date of rating'''
date = df.Date.tolist()

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'''Extracting the year from the full date'''
date = [i[:4] for i in date]

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'''Creating a new feature called year'''
df['Year'] = date;

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df.head(3)

Out[19]:
CustomerID Score Date MovieID Year
0 1488844 3 2005-09-06 1 2005
1 822109 5 2005-05-13 1 2005
2 885013 4 2005-10-19 1 2005
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min(date), max(date)

Out[20]:
('1999', '2005')
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'''Calculating the percentage of ratings in a year'''
l = len(date); percentage = []
flag = list(set(date))
flag.sort()
for i in flag:
percentage.append(date.count(i)/l)
y = 1999
print("Year  Percentage")
for i in range(len(percentage)):
print ('{}: {}'.format(y,percentage[i]*100))
y += 1

Year  Percentage
1999: 0.0017710325918222193
2000: 0.8034293510155002
2001: 1.541093526983968
2002: 3.989180238070017
2003: 9.969287966739842
2004: 31.469619474108086
2005: 52.22561841049077

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plt.figure(figsize=(15,6))
sns.barplot(x=flag,y=percentage)
plt.title('Year wise distribution of total ratings ',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.xlabel('Year'); plt.ylabel('Percentage of ratings')
plt.savefig('Year_wise_distribution_of_total_ratings.png')
plt.show()

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import pickle


In the cell below we are calculating every user's first rating year and saving it in a file
Note: No need to run the code again

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'''
list_of_customer = sorted(list(set(df.CustomerID)))

year_1st_rating = [];
for i in list_of_customer:
date = min(list(df[df.CustomerID == i].Date))
year_1st_rating.append(date[:4])

with open("year_1st_rating.txt", "wb") as fp:
pickle.dump(year_1st_rating, fp)

fp.close()
'''

print()


In a pickle file we had stored 470,758 values, each value represents the year of 1st rating that a user gave. Computing this list was taking a lot of time so we computed it once and stored the result.

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with open('year_1st_rating.txt','rb') as fp:
del fp

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'''The values were originally in string format.
Therefore converting them in integer'''
year_1st_rating = list(map(int, year_1st_rating))

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plt.figure(figsize=(14,7.5))
plt.hist(year_1st_rating,bins=[1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006]\
,rwidth=0.9,color='#650000',normed=True)
plt.xticks([1999.5,2000.5,2001.5,2002.5,2003.5,2004.5,2005.5],\
[1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005])
plt.xlabel('Year');plt.ylabel('Percentage')
plt.title('Distribution of year of 1st ratings of Customers',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.savefig('Distribution_year_1st_ratings_Customers.png')
plt.show()


Since Netflix doesn't disclose the joining date of the users we can consider the year in which the user rated a movie first as the joining year.
If we assume that, then we can conclude that netflix had the most number of users in 2004 and 2005.

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del year_1st_rating

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del date;

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from collections import Counter

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'''Finding the unique customers and the frequency of their rating'''
fre = dict(Counter(df.CustomerID))

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import numpy as np
flag = np.array(list(fre.values()))

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plt.figure(figsize=(12,6))
sns.distplot(flag,hist_kws={'cumulative': True},\
kde_kws={'cumulative': True},color='black')
plt.title('Cdf Number of movie watched',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.savefig('Cdf_Number_of_movie_watched.png')
plt.show()

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print ('50th percentile: {}\n75th percentile: {}\nMaximum: {}'\
.format(np.percentile(flag,50),np.percentile(flag,75),max(flag)))

50th percentile: 24.0
75th percentile: 64.0
Maximum: 4467


We had an array of number of movies watched by the user, we took the 75th percentile and used it as a threshold to decide whether someone is a frequent customer or not.

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'''If the user has rated more than 64 movie in the set of 4499
movies then he is frequent or else he is not'''
fvnf = []; tmp = np.percentile(flag,75)
for i in list(df.CustomerID):
if(fre[i]>tmp):
fvnf.append('F')
else:
fvnf.append('NF')

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del flag

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del fre
'''Creating a new column in the datframe to store Frequent/Non-frequent'''
df['Freq_nFreq'] = fvnf
del fvnf

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'''Retrieving the distribution of scores given by frequent and non-frequent users'''
score_f = df[df.Freq_nFreq == 'F'].Score.tolist()
score_nf = df[df.Freq_nFreq == 'NF'].Score.tolist()

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import matplotlib.patches as mpatches

'''Plotting the histogram of scores'''
plt.figure(figsize=(12,6))
plt.hist(x=[score_f,score_nf],bins=[1,2,3,4,5,6],rwidth=0.9,normed=True,color=['#900c3f','#ffc300']);
plt.xticks([1.5,2.5,3.5,4.5,5.5],[1,2,3,4,5])
plt.title('Comparison of Distribution of scores between Freq & Non-Freq users',fontdict={'fontsize':20})
plt.xlabel('Score'); plt.ylabel('Percentage')

red_patch = mpatches.Patch(color='#900c3f', label='Frequent')
black_patch = mpatches.Patch(color='#ffc300', label='Non-Frequent')
plt.legend(handles=[red_patch,black_patch])

plt.savefig('Comparison_of_Distribution_of_scores_freq_nfreq.png')
plt.show()


From here we can see that frequent reviewers are more critacal in their ratings as they give more percentage of 1,2 and 3 stars than 4 and 5 stars.

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del score_f; del score_nf

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'''Retriving the scores of 2005'''
score_2005 = df[df.Year == str(2005)].Score.tolist()

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'''Plotting the histogram of scores in the year 2005
when netflix was the most popular in '''
plt.figure(figsize=(12,6))
plt.hist(x=score_2005,bins=[1,2,3,4,5,6],rwidth=0.9,normed=True,color='#15582A');
plt.xticks([1.5,2.5,3.5,4.5,5.5],[1,2,3,4,5])
plt.title('Distribution of Scores when year is 2005',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.xlabel('Score'); plt.ylabel('Percentage')
plt.savefig('Distribution_of_scores_when_year2005.png')
plt.show()

del score_2005


So we can see that in 2005 distribution of scores was almost same as that of the total distribution

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'''Retriving the scores of 2004'''
score_2004 = df[df.Year == str(2004)].Score.tolist()

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'''Plotting the histogram of scores in the year 2004
'''
plt.figure(figsize=(12,6))
plt.hist(x=score_2004,bins=[1,2,3,4,5,6],rwidth=0.9,normed=True,color='#461B60');
plt.xticks([1.5,2.5,3.5,4.5,5.5],[1,2,3,4,5])
plt.title('Distribution of Scores when year is 2004',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.xlabel('Score'); plt.ylabel('Percentage')
plt.savefig('Distribution_of_scores_when_year2004.png')
plt.show()

del score_2004

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'''Retriving the scores of 2003'''
score_2003 = df[df.Year == str(2003)].Score.tolist()

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'''Plotting the histogram of scores in the year 2003
when netflix was the most popular in '''
plt.figure(figsize=(12,6))
plt.hist(x=score_2003,bins=[1,2,3,4,5,6],rwidth=0.9,normed=True,color='#5D1515');
plt.xticks([1.5,2.5,3.5,4.5,5.5],[1,2,3,4,5])
plt.title('Distribution of Scores when year is 2003',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.xlabel('Score'); plt.ylabel('Percentage')
plt.savefig('Distribution_of_scores_when_year2003.png')
plt.show()

del score_2003

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'''Retriving the scores of 2002'''
score_2002 = df[df.Year == str(2002)].Score.tolist()

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'''Plotting the histogram of scores in the year 2002
when netflix was the most popular in '''
plt.figure(figsize=(12,6))
plt.hist(x=score_2002,bins=[1,2,3,4,5,6],rwidth=0.9,normed=True,color='#17202A');
plt.xticks([1.5,2.5,3.5,4.5,5.5],[1,2,3,4,5])
plt.title('Distribution of Scores when year is 2002',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.xlabel('Score'); plt.ylabel('Percentage')
plt.savefig('Distribution_of_scores_when_year2002.png')
plt.show()

del score_2002


We can see that in 2002, number of 3 stars surpased the number of 4 stars.
Now let's compare them altogether

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'''Retriving the scores of over the last 4 years'''
score_2005 = df[df.Year == str(2005)].Score.tolist()
score_2004 = df[df.Year == str(2004)].Score.tolist()
score_2003 = df[df.Year == str(2003)].Score.tolist()
score_2002 = df[df.Year == str(2002)].Score.tolist()

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'''Plotting the histogram of scores in the year 2004
when netflix was the most popular in '''
plt.figure(figsize=(20,10))
clr = ['#A569BD','#A9DFBF','#EDBB99','#CD6155']
plt.hist(x=[score_2002,score_2003,score_2004,score_2005],bins=[1,2,3,4,5,6],\
rwidth=0.7,normed=True,color=clr);
plt.xticks([1.5,2.5,3.5,4.5,5.5],[1,2,3,4,5])
plt.title('Distribution of Scores during the last 4 years',fontdict={'fontsize':30})
plt.xlabel('Score'); plt.ylabel('Percentage')

patch_2002 = mpatches.Patch(color=clr[0], label='2002')
patch_2003 = mpatches.Patch(color=clr[1], label='2003')
patch_2004 = mpatches.Patch(color=clr[2], label='2004')
patch_2005 = mpatches.Patch(color=clr[3], label='2005')

plt.legend(handles=[patch_2002,patch_2003,patch_2004,patch_2005])

plt.savefig('Distribution_of_scores_during_last_4_years.png')
plt.show()


So, we can see that low ratings were given more in 2002 and onwards and in the recent years, more high ratings were given

Hypothesis:

1. Frequent users who give critical ratings, rated more in 2002 and 2003.
2. Netflix improved their Algorithm for suggesting the movies and thus with pleased customers we get more higher ratings