Is it possible to get recommendation on similar product using Mahout ?
eg :
I have data set of movies with following attributes
Movie_name, Actor_1, Actor_2, Actress_1, Actress_2, Director, Theme, Language
Now given a Movie_name the system should recommend top 3 similar movies based on the attributes .
Can this be done using Mahout. If yes how ?
Topic apache-mahout python recommender-system
Category Data Science
Generally, this is done using spark-rowsimilarity algorithm - it is a class of content based recommendation. However, the actual process of doing this is quite simple. Here are the steps:
For each movie, convert your categorical variables into columns. For lets say that actor_1 has Brad Pitt, Daniel Craig, and Vin Diesel for different movies. This will become three columns with a 1 denoting which movies have each actor. Your movie matrix will look something like:
Movie Name, Has_Brad_Pitt, Has_Daniel_Craig, Has_Vin_Diesel, ...
MI-6 , 1 , 0 , 0 , ...
Fast&Furios, 0 , 0 , 1 , ...
Casino Royale, 0 , 1 , 0 , ...
Now, to find similarity score of movies, you can just compute the cross product of the two vectors. Higher the value, more they are similar.
This can be done by the spark-rowsimilarity algorithm in one shot. You may have to do some work in encoding categorical variables.
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