In this recipe, we examine downloading the MovieLens public dataset and take a first exploratory view of the data. We will use the explicit data based on customer ratings from the MovieLens dataset. The MovieLens dataset contains 1,000,000 ratings of 4,000 movies from 6,000 users.
You will need one of the following command line tools to retrieve the specified data: curl (recommended for Mac) or wget (recommended for Windows or Linux).
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