An Application of the Singular Value Decomposition to Movie Recommendation

Context and Summary

This is an example of an application of the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) that the students engage with in the Day 8 page. The exercise is intended to solidify their theoretical understanding of the SVD through a relatable, fun application..

Note: movielens25m.mat is the dataset used in this example.

Livescript Code and Sample Output

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