Creating content-based data

As much as you might want to jump right to finding similar items and making recommendations, you first need to get your data in a usable format. In the next few exercises, you will explore your base data and work through how to format that data to be used for content-based recommendations.

As a reminder, the desired outcome is a row per movie with each column indicating whether a genre applies to the movie. You will be looking at movie_genre_df, which contains these columns:

• name - Name of movie
• genre_list - Genre that the movie has been labeled as

A movie may have multiple genres, and therefore multiple rows. In this exercise, you will particularly focus on one movie (Toy Story in this case) to be able to clearly see what is happening with the data.