Ever wonder how Netflix decides what movies to recommend for you? Or how Amazon recommends books? We can get a feel for how it works by building a simplified recommender of our own!
In this capstone, you will show off your problem solving and Java programming skills by creating recommender systems. You will work with data for movies, including ratings, but the principles involved can easily be adapted to books, restaurants, and more. You will write a program to answer questions about the data, including which items should be recommended to a user based on their ratings of several movies. Given input files on users ratings and movie titles, you will be able to: 1. Read in and parse data into lists and maps; 2. Calculate average ratings; 3. Calculate how similar a given rater is to another user based on ratings; and 4. Recommend movies to a given user based on ratings. 5. Display recommended movies for a given user on a webpage.
AG
This Caption project will help you to apply and have better understanding of the 5 courses in this specialization.
CT
Challenging, but I feel that I learned a lot about programming. I'm looking forward to the UCSD intermediate programming course.
JP
It’s a great project requiring good application of java. Some steps were hard to follow but understood them after some time. A good project to end a specialisation course. Cheers.
MA
THe courses really tested my overall knowledge of other courses that I have done in past 3 months. REally great learning. Thank you.
AS
This is a excellent course and covers all the concept taught in the entire Specialization.
NS
Excellent course! A real challenge! It is awesome when you apply what you have learned!
DB
We can view this project only using Duke's Platform. It would have been much better had this capstone guided us in deploying our project in the form of a web-app.
TG
Amazing Capstone Project!! I loved it! Really good specialization.....Highly recommended!
SJ
Wonderful course learned a lot by making a recommendation system...but some assignments are bit hard to understand what they want from you but everything else is fine. Everyone must take this course
ER
I really enjoyed this course, it was fantastic, the lecturers explained well.Please come and enroll for this course, it was great and there was alot of interaction between other learners
NT
This is a big challenge. If you decide to take the call, be prepared to learn a lot, struggle, have fun, and don't walk away once you get started. Great experience!
AB
I get more knowledge and I am very happy to have this chance to meet the great teacher her .