andyyuan78

Movies Recommendation:

• MovieLens - Movie Recommendation Data Sets http://www.grouplens.org/node/73
• Yahoo! - Movie, Music, and Images Ratings Data Sets http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=r
• Jester - Movie Ratings Data Sets (Collaborative Filtering Dataset) http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/jester-data/
• Cornell University - Movie-review data for use in sentiment-analysis experiments http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/pabo/movie-review-data/

Music Recommendation:

• Last.fm - Music Recommendation Data Sets http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~ocelma/MusicRecommendationDataset/index.html

andyyuan78

The toughest part was getting access to an EC2 instance.  I followed
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html#access-ec2
To set up the aws command line interface, I followed
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
-> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-set-up.html
-> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html#install-bundle-other-os
(for my MacBook)
-> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html
I don't recall how I set up the public/private key pair, but it wasn't

andyyuan78

The toughest part was getting access to an EC2 instance.  I followed
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html#access-ec2
To set up the aws command line interface, I followed
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
-> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-set-up.html
-> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html#install-bundle-other-os
(for my MacBook)
-> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html
I don't recall how I set up the public/private key pair, but it wasn't