Item Based Collaborative Filtering Based on Highest Item Similarity

Abstract

The popularity of movies has increased in recent years. There are thousands of films produced each year. These films make it challenging for movie lovers to pick the ideal film to see. We propose a recommendation system that strives to offer guidance in selecting films. Depending on the method employed, recommendation systems can be categorized into three groups: collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, and hybrid filtering. In this work, collaborative filtering, one of the methods frequently used in recommendation systems was used. There are two ways to the Collaborative Filtering approach: User-Based Collaborative Filtering (UBCF) and Item-Based Collaborative Filtering (IBCF). There are two methods for finding similar items or users: Cosine and Pearson similarities. The Cosine similarity approach is one way to determine how similar two items are. Additionally, the Pearson Correlation Coefficient approach, which determines similarities between objects by calculating linear correlations between two sets, is the most widely employed. This study aims to determine which system produces the highest item similarity in IBCF and predicted ratings to actual ratings using 90% training and 10% testing data. The data set taken from MovieLens.org consists of 943 users from 1664 movies with 99392 ratings. The MovieLens data collection will be analyzed with the RStudio and the R package recommenderlab. The results reveal that the IBCF with Cosine similarities shows the number of items recommended n top-rated movies to each user for 10 movies. The IBCF can identify the most recommended films and creates a frequency distribution of items.