/netflix-recommender

A simple Netflix movie & TV show recommender system (Live app coming soon!)

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A Netflix movie & TV show recommender system

Set up instructions

Initial Data Processing

  1. To create a virtual environment in python 3.6

virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3.6 <path/to/new/virtualenv/>

  1. Activate the environment and install all the packages available in the requirement.txt file.

source <path/to/new/virtualenv>/bin/activate pip install -r <path/to/requirement.txt>

  1. To create and store recommendation system algorithm output files (This only needs to be run once)

python script.py

Launch App

  1. Install all required packages and dependencies

npm install

  1. Start up the web server

node server.js

  1. Open http://localhost:8080 to view the webpage in the browser. You may begin querying for similar Netflix shows through the search bar.

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