Data Collection:

This project uses the data scraped from imdb website by https://github.com/sundeepblue/movie_rating_prediction/ . Please refer the source for the data collection steps and last scraped time.

The Source is a CSV file 'movie_metadata.csv' (1.5MB) that has the below features.

"movie_title" "color" "num_critic_for_reviews" "movie_facebook_likes" "duration" "director_name" "director_facebook_likes" "actor_3_name" "actor_3_facebook_likes" "actor_2_name" "actor_2_facebook_likes" "actor_1_name" "actor_1_facebook_likes" "gross" "genres" "num_voted_users" "cast_total_facebook_likes" "facenumber_in_poster" "plot_keywords" "movie_imdb_link" "num_user_for_reviews" "language" "country" "content_rating" "budget" "title_year" "imdb_score" "aspect_ratio"

Methodology

This project uses three Regressors - KNN, Random Forest Model and Gradient Boosting in Python from the sklearn package, uses techniques like One Hot Encoding, 5 Fold Cross Validation, Grid Search CV for Hyperparameter tuning to identify the best model.

Evaluation

RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) and R^2 were used as the Evaluation metrics for the regressors

Contact Please contact for yamineesh@gmail.com for any questions regarding the project