Netflix Prize

About this project: I took part in the Netflix Prize, to try to improve Netflix's predictions on how much someone will like a movie, based on how he/she rated other movies.

I did manage to make it onto the leaderboard briefly (Leaderboard for Oct 19, 2006 - I'm teamgreg), but fell off shortly after and never made it back on. So it goes! The strategy I used for that submission was doing a movie-based correlation while correcting for the mean rating of each user.

Due to the large volume of data, I did this project mostly in C++. Here are my source files: