Netflix is an American entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California. It specializes in and provides streaming media, video-on-demand online, and DVD by mail. In 2013, Netflix expanded into film and television production, as well as online distribution. Netflix uses a model-based collaborative filtering approach for real-time movie recommendation for its subscribers.
In this chapter, we will see two end-to-end projects and develop a model for item-based collaborative filtering for movie similarity measurement and a model-based movie recommendation engine with Spark that recommends movies for new users. We will see how to ...
