Data Description

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Rating Statistics

Ratings 19,999,889
Users 138,492
Items 26,743
Density 0.540%
Item Gini 0.903
Start Date 1995-01-09 11:46:44
End Date 2015-03-31 06:40:02

Item Statistics

This section describes the distribution of various item statistics from the data set.

Item Popularity

What is the distribution of popularity?

Let’s also look at this as a Lorenz curve, for clarity:

Item Average Rating

What is the distribution of average ratings?

User Statistics

We now turn to the distribution of various user statistics.

User Average Ratings

How are user averages distributed?

User Activity Level

And what is the distribution of user activity levels (# of ratings)?

Ratings over Time

The MovieLens ratings have timestamps, so we’ll also look at a temporal view of the data.

Data Volume

How did the data grow over time?

How many ratings are we getting each month through the life of the data set?

User Activity

Monthly unique users is a good measure of user activity.

How long do users usually stick around?

Parametric Activity Distributions

Some downstream uses benefit from parametric distributions of user/item activity levels.

Item Activity Distributions

This section models the item popularity distribution with various parametric distributions.

Distribution Params Location Scale D(KL) Δ(JS)
Log-normal s=13.200 1 0.243 0.989 0.425
Pareto b=0.282 0.154 0.845 0.305 0.24
Power law a=0.870 0.288 999.842 inf 0.564
Geometric p=0.001 0 2.226 0.533

User Activity Distributions

Now the same, for user activity distributions.

Distribution Params Location Scale D(KL) Δ(JS)
Log-normal s=1.608 19.075 43.15 0.036 0.095
Pareto b=0.677 3.426 16.521 0.112 0.164
Power law a=0.432 19.996 999.707 inf 0.31
NegBinom n=1.000, p=0.008 20 0.203 0.189
BetaNegBinom n=1.000, a=1.533, b=83.495 20 0.028 0.087