ijasperyang / MusicRecommenderSystem

Django-Based Music Recommendation

What is it ?

• This is a recommendation system based on Django

• Mainly there are 3 algorithms uses:

a. UserCF(User-based Collaborative Flitering)

b. ItemCF(Item-based Collaborative Filtering)

c. LFM(Latent Factor Model)

This project mainly uses ItemCF as the recommend algorithm.

Project

Following the traditional MVC(Model/View/Control) architecture

Data Visualization

Google's highcharts library

The recommend principle is If more people like item A and item B at the same time, then item A and item B have obvious similarities.

In short, the basic similarity is calculated by a complex formula. You can the the implementation of codes in here

        for userID, items in trainset.items():
            for i in items:
                counter.setdefault(i, 0)
                counter[i] += 1
                simitems = simMatrix.setdefault(i, {})
                for j in items:
                    if not i == j:
                        simitems.setdefault(j, 0)
                        simitems[j] += 1

        for i, simitems in simMatrix.items():
            for j in simitems:
                simMatrix[i][j] /= math.sqrt(counter[i] * counter[j])

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Crawl Data

A very important part of the recommender system is to get accumulation data from scratch called cold start.

The project used requests to build a multi-threaded crawler that extractedf Baidu music, kugou music, kuwoo music. After data cleaning (Removing the urls that are already dead links, there was a total of 100000 records used as train dataset.

Each music record includes UserID, music, url, rating. And the rating is based on the number of comments.

`0-500` : `1 point`
`500-1000` : `2 points`
`1000-2000` : `3 points`
`2000-3000` : `4 points`
`3000-more` : `5 points`(i.e. most popular)

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Build real website

• BackEnd: Django
• FrontEnd: Bootstrap + JQuery(Ajax)
• Deploy : Nginx+Gunicorn+Supervisor