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AI movie critic - part 1 - Reading the training data

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Tammo Sminia

This is the first of a series of posts. Where we will use machine learning to rate movies. For this task we're not going to watch all the movies. I assume it's good enough to just read the plot. We'll use Markov chains to rate the movies and as an added bonus we can also generate new movie plots for awesome (or terrible) movies. In this first part we'll get the data and change it into a more usable format. We can use the data from IMDB, which is published on ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/. Of interest are the plots and the ratings.

Plots look like this:

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