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Subject: recommendation mechanism
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I have got the group lens example working. Had a couple of doubts though -
The dataset in grouplens has movieid, userid and the corresponding ratings.
However a rating is meant to rate a movie but there are other things related
to a movie to which the rating contributes.
For example, the actors, directors, movie genre or may be the year of
release etc.

So, is there any way to  capture this relationship and then generate
recommendation.

Any suggestions, ideas about how to represent data or vector and then
compute recommendations or how it is done usually etc. would be nice.

-Mac

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