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| 1 | +SUMMARY & USAGE LICENSE |
| 2 | +============================================= |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +MovieLens data sets were collected by the GroupLens Research Project |
| 5 | +at the University of Minnesota. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +This data set consists of: |
| 8 | + * 100,000 ratings (1-5) from 943 users on 1682 movies. |
| 9 | + * Each user has rated at least 20 movies. |
| 10 | + * Simple demographic info for the users (age, gender, occupation, zip) |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +The data was collected through the MovieLens web site |
| 13 | +(movielens.umn.edu) during the seven-month period from September 19th, |
| 14 | +1997 through April 22nd, 1998. This data has been cleaned up - users |
| 15 | +who had less than 20 ratings or did not have complete demographic |
| 16 | +information were removed from this data set. Detailed descriptions of |
| 17 | +the data file can be found at the end of this file. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +Neither the University of Minnesota nor any of the researchers |
| 20 | +involved can guarantee the correctness of the data, its suitability |
| 21 | +for any particular purpose, or the validity of results based on the |
| 22 | +use of the data set. The data set may be used for any research |
| 23 | +purposes under the following conditions: |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | + * The user may not state or imply any endorsement from the |
| 26 | + University of Minnesota or the GroupLens Research Group. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | + * The user must acknowledge the use of the data set in |
| 29 | + publications resulting from the use of the data set |
| 30 | + (see below for citation information). |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + * The user may not redistribute the data without separate |
| 33 | + permission. |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | + * The user may not use this information for any commercial or |
| 36 | + revenue-bearing purposes without first obtaining permission |
| 37 | + from a faculty member of the GroupLens Research Project at the |
| 38 | + University of Minnesota. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +If you have any further questions or comments, please contact GroupLens |
| 41 | +<grouplens-info@cs.umn.edu>. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +CITATION |
| 44 | +============================================== |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +To acknowledge use of the dataset in publications, please cite the |
| 47 | +following paper: |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +F. Maxwell Harper and Joseph A. Konstan. 2015. The MovieLens Datasets: |
| 50 | +History and Context. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent |
| 51 | +Systems (TiiS) 5, 4, Article 19 (December 2015), 19 pages. |
| 52 | +DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2827872 |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
| 56 | +============================================== |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +Thanks to Al Borchers for cleaning up this data and writing the |
| 59 | +accompanying scripts. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +PUBLISHED WORK THAT HAS USED THIS DATASET |
| 62 | +============================================== |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +Herlocker, J., Konstan, J., Borchers, A., Riedl, J.. An Algorithmic |
| 65 | +Framework for Performing Collaborative Filtering. Proceedings of the |
| 66 | +1999 Conference on Research and Development in Information |
| 67 | +Retrieval. Aug. 1999. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE GROUPLENS RESEARCH PROJECT |
| 70 | +============================================== |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +The GroupLens Research Project is a research group in the Department |
| 73 | +of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. |
| 74 | +Members of the GroupLens Research Project are involved in many |
| 75 | +research projects related to the fields of information filtering, |
| 76 | +collaborative filtering, and recommender systems. The project is lead |
| 77 | +by professors John Riedl and Joseph Konstan. The project began to |
| 78 | +explore automated collaborative filtering in 1992, but is most well |
| 79 | +known for its world wide trial of an automated collaborative filtering |
| 80 | +system for Usenet news in 1996. The technology developed in the |
| 81 | +Usenet trial formed the base for the formation of Net Perceptions, |
| 82 | +Inc., which was founded by members of GroupLens Research. Since then |
| 83 | +the project has expanded its scope to research overall information |
| 84 | +filtering solutions, integrating in content-based methods as well as |
| 85 | +improving current collaborative filtering technology. |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +Further information on the GroupLens Research project, including |
| 88 | +research publications, can be found at the following web site: |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | + http://www.grouplens.org/ |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +GroupLens Research currently operates a movie recommender based on |
| 93 | +collaborative filtering: |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | + http://www.movielens.org/ |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF DATA FILES |
| 98 | +============================================== |
| 99 | + |
| 100 | +Here are brief descriptions of the data. |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | +ml-data.tar.gz -- Compressed tar file. To rebuild the u data files do this: |
| 103 | + gunzip ml-data.tar.gz |
| 104 | + tar xvf ml-data.tar |
| 105 | + mku.sh |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +u.data -- The full u data set, 100000 ratings by 943 users on 1682 items. |
| 108 | + Each user has rated at least 20 movies. Users and items are |
| 109 | + numbered consecutively from 1. The data is randomly |
| 110 | + ordered. This is a tab separated list of |
| 111 | + user id | item id | rating | timestamp. |
| 112 | + The time stamps are unix seconds since 1/1/1970 UTC |
| 113 | + |
| 114 | +u.info -- The number of users, items, and ratings in the u data set. |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | +u.item -- Information about the items (movies); this is a tab separated |
| 117 | + list of |
| 118 | + movie id | movie title | release date | video release date | |
| 119 | + IMDb URL | unknown | Action | Adventure | Animation | |
| 120 | + Children's | Comedy | Crime | Documentary | Drama | Fantasy | |
| 121 | + Film-Noir | Horror | Musical | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | |
| 122 | + Thriller | War | Western | |
| 123 | + The last 19 fields are the genres, a 1 indicates the movie |
| 124 | + is of that genre, a 0 indicates it is not; movies can be in |
| 125 | + several genres at once. |
| 126 | + The movie ids are the ones used in the u.data data set. |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | +u.genre -- A list of the genres. |
| 129 | + |
| 130 | +u.user -- Demographic information about the users; this is a tab |
| 131 | + separated list of |
| 132 | + user id | age | gender | occupation | zip code |
| 133 | + The user ids are the ones used in the u.data data set. |
| 134 | + |
| 135 | +u.occupation -- A list of the occupations. |
| 136 | + |
| 137 | +u1.base -- The data sets u1.base and u1.test through u5.base and u5.test |
| 138 | +u1.test are 80%/20% splits of the u data into training and test data. |
| 139 | +u2.base Each of u1, ..., u5 have disjoint test sets; this if for |
| 140 | +u2.test 5 fold cross validation (where you repeat your experiment |
| 141 | +u3.base with each training and test set and average the results). |
| 142 | +u3.test These data sets can be generated from u.data by mku.sh. |
| 143 | +u4.base |
| 144 | +u4.test |
| 145 | +u5.base |
| 146 | +u5.test |
| 147 | + |
| 148 | +ua.base -- The data sets ua.base, ua.test, ub.base, and ub.test |
| 149 | +ua.test split the u data into a training set and a test set with |
| 150 | +ub.base exactly 10 ratings per user in the test set. The sets |
| 151 | +ub.test ua.test and ub.test are disjoint. These data sets can |
| 152 | + be generated from u.data by mku.sh. |
| 153 | + |
| 154 | +allbut.pl -- The script that generates training and test sets where |
| 155 | + all but n of a users ratings are in the training data. |
| 156 | + |
| 157 | +mku.sh -- A shell script to generate all the u data sets from u.data. |
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