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'Superman Returns': 3.5, 'The Night Listener': 4.0},
'Claudia Puig': {'Snakes on a Plane': 3.5, 'Just My Luck': 3.0,
'The Night Listener': 4.5, 'Superman Returns': 4.0,
'You, Me and Dupree': 2.5},
'Mick LaSalle': {'Lady in the Water': 3.0, 'Snakes on a Plane': 4.0,
'Just My Luck': 2.0, 'Superman Returns': 3.0, 'The Night Listener': 3.0,
'You, Me and Dupree': 2.0},
'Jack Matthews': {'Lady in the Water': 3.0, 'Snakes on a Plane': 4.0,
'The Night Listener': 3.0, 'Superman Returns': 5.0, 'You, Me and Dupree': 3.5},
'Toby': {'Snakes on a Plane':4.5,'You, Me and Dupree':1.0,'Superman Returns':4.0}}
from math import sqrt
# Returns a distance-based similarity score for person1 and person2
def sim_distance(prefs,person1,person2):
# Get the list of shared_items
si={}
for item in prefs[person1]:
if item in prefs[person2]: si[item]=1
# if they have no ratings in common, return 0
if len(si)==0: return 0
# Add up the squares of all the differences
sum_of_squares=sum([pow(prefs[person1][item]-prefs[person2][item],2)
for item in prefs[person1] if item in prefs[person2]])
return 1/(1+sum_of_squares)
# Returns the Pearson correlation coefficient for p1 and p2
def sim_pearson(prefs,p1,p2):
# Get the list of mutually rated items
si={}
for item in prefs[p1]:
if item in prefs[p2]: si[item]=1
# if they are no ratings in common, return 0
if len(si)==0: return 0
# Sum calculations
n=len(si)
# Sums of all the preferences
sum1=sum([prefs[p1][it] for it in si])
sum2=sum([prefs[p2][it] for it in si])
# Sums of the squares
sum1Sq=sum([pow(prefs[p1][it],2) for it in si])
sum2Sq=sum([pow(prefs[p2][it],2) for it in si])
# Sum of the products
pSum=sum([prefs[p1][it]*prefs[p2][it] for it in si])
# Calculate r (Pearson score)
num=pSum-(sum1*sum2/n)
den=sqrt((sum1Sq-pow(sum1,2)/n)*(sum2Sq-pow(sum2,2)/n))
if den==0: return 0
r=num/den
return r
# Returns the best matches for person from the prefs dictionary.
# Number of results and similarity function are optional params.
def topMatches(prefs,person,n=5,similarity=sim_pearson):
scores=[(similarity(prefs,person,other),other)
for other in prefs if other!=person]
scores.sort()
scores.reverse()
return scores[0:n]
# Gets recommendations for a person by using a weighted average
# of every other user's rankings
def getRecommendations(prefs,person,similarity=sim_pearson):
totals={}
simSums={}
for other in prefs:
# don't compare me to myself
if other==person: continue
sim=similarity(prefs,person,other)
# ignore scores of zero or lower
if sim<=0: continue
for item in prefs[other]:
# only score movies I haven't seen yet
if item not in prefs[person] or prefs[person][item]==0:
# Similarity * Score
totals.setdefault(item,0)
totals[item]+=prefs[other][item]*sim
# Sum of similarities
simSums.setdefault(item,0)
simSums[item]+=sim
# Create the normalized list
rankings=[(total/simSums[item],item) for item,total in totals.items()]
# Return the sorted list
rankings.sort()
rankings.reverse()
return rankings
def transformPrefs(prefs):
result={}
for person in prefs:
for item in prefs[person]:
result.setdefault(item,{})
# Flip item and person
result[item][person]=prefs[person][item]
return result
def calculateSimilarItems(prefs,n=10):
# Create a dictionary of items showing which other items they
# are most similar to.
result={}
# Invert the preference matrix to be item-centric
itemPrefs=transformPrefs(prefs)
c=0
for item in itemPrefs:
# Status updates for large datasets
c+=1
if c%100==0: print "%d / %d" % (c,len(itemPrefs))
# Find the most similar items to this one
scores=topMatches(itemPrefs,item,n=n,similarity=sim_distance)
result[item]=scores
return result
def getRecommendedItems(prefs,itemMatch,user):
userRatings=prefs[user]
scores={}
totalSim={}
# Loop over items rated by this user
for (item,rating) in userRatings.items( ):
# Loop over items similar to this one
for (similarity,item2) in itemMatch[item]:
# Ignore if this user has already rated this item
if item2 in userRatings: continue
# Weighted sum of rating times similarity
scores.setdefault(item2,0)
scores[item2]+=similarity*rating
# Sum of all the similarities
totalSim.setdefault(item2,0)
totalSim[item2]+=similarity
# Divide each total score by total weighting to get an average
rankings=[(score/totalSim[item],item) for item,score in scores.items( )]
# Return the rankings from highest to lowest
rankings.sort( )
rankings.reverse( )
return rankings
def loadMovieLens(path='/data/movielens'):
# Get movie titles
movies={}
for line in open(path+'/u.item'):
(id,title)=line.split('|')[0:2]
movies[id]=title
# Load data
prefs={}
for line in open(path+'/u.data'):
(user,movieid,rating,ts)=line.split('\t')
prefs.setdefault(user,{})
prefs[user][movies[movieid]]=float(rating)
return prefs
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