Building a Vector Space Model for Movies

IMDB recommendation-network analysis: expand a Kaggle movie set by scraping “People who liked this also liked…” links and visualize how titles cluster.

The write-up, Rmd, and network plot live in the public repositories below.

Artifacts

Recommendation network

Expand a movie set along “people who liked this also liked…” links and see how titles cluster.

IMDB network analysis →

Plot-keyword vector space

Compare movies and actors with cosine similarity and Euclidean distance.

Vector space model →

Idea in one line

Recommendations define edges; the graph (and optional embeddings) show neighborhoods of taste — a vector-space / network cousin of clustering notes.