Movie Recommender

• Tech Stack: Spark, SQL, Pandas, AWS
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Movie Recommendation Engine Development in Apache Spark

• Built data pipeline based on Spark RDD to analyze movie rating datasets with Spark SQL
• Implemented the Alternative Least Square model to provide personalized movie recommendations with Root Mean Square Error of 0.69 and adapted user-based approaches to handle system cold-start problems
• Conducted model hyperparameters tuning with Spark ML cross-evaluation toolbox and monitored data processing performance via Spark UI on AWS