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Rounak Banik
Rounak Banik
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Rounak Banik

Rounak Banik is a Young India Fellow and an ECE graduate from IIT Roorkee. He has worked as a software engineer at Parceed, a New York start-up, and Springboard, an EdTech start-up based in San Francisco and Bangalore. He has also served as a backend development instructor at Acadview, teaching Python and Django to around 35 college students from Delhi and Dehradun. He is an alumni of Springboard's data science career track. He has given talks at the SciPy India Conference and published popular tutorials on Kaggle and DataCamp.
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Plot description-based recommender

Our plot description-based recommender will take in a movie title as an argument and output a list of movies that are most similar based on their plots. These are the steps we are going to perform in building this model:

  1. Obtain the data required to build the model
  2. Create TF-IDF vectors for the plot description (or overview) of every movie
  3. Compute the pairwise cosine similarity score of every movie
  4. Write the recommender function that takes in a movie title as an argument and outputs movies most similar to it based on the plot

Preparing the data

In its present form, the DataFrame, although clean, does not contain the features that are required to build the plot description-based recommender...

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Rounak Banik

Rounak Banik is a Young India Fellow and an ECE graduate from IIT Roorkee. He has worked as a software engineer at Parceed, a New York start-up, and Springboard, an EdTech start-up based in San Francisco and Bangalore. He has also served as a backend development instructor at Acadview, teaching Python and Django to around 35 college students from Delhi and Dehradun. He is an alumni of Springboard's data science career track. He has given talks at the SciPy India Conference and published popular tutorials on Kaggle and DataCamp.
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