gistfile1.txt

import pandas as pd
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# pass in column names for each CSV as the column name is not given in the file and read them using pandas.
# You can check the column names from the readme file
#Reading users file:
u_cols = ['user_id', 'age', 'sex', 'occupation', 'zip_code']
users = pd.read_csv('ml-100k/u.user', sep='|', names=u_cols,encoding='latin-1')

#Reading ratings file:
r_cols = ['user_id', 'movie_id', 'rating', 'unix_timestamp']
ratings = pd.read_csv('ml-100k/u.data', sep='\t', names=r_cols,encoding='latin-1')

#Reading items file:
i_cols = ['movie id', 'movie title' ,'release date','video release date', 'IMDb URL', 'unknown', 'Action', 'Adventure',
'Animation', 'Children\'s', 'Comedy', 'Crime', 'Documentary', 'Drama', 'Fantasy', 'Film-Noir', 'Horror', 'Musical', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Sci-Fi', 'Thriller', 'War', 'Western']

items = pd.read_csv('ml-100k/u.item', sep='|', names=i_cols,encoding='latin-1')