The first step in building a nonnegative factorization model is to load the entire dataset in the memory. For this task, we will be leveraging NumPy highly.
In order to complete this recipe, you'll have to download the MovieLens database from the University of Minnesota GroupLens page at http://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/ and unzip it in a working directory where your code will be. We will also use NumPy in this code significantly, so please ensure that you have this numerical analysis package downloaded and ready. Additionally, we will use the load_reviews function from the previous recipes. If you have not had the opportunity to review the appropriate section, please have the code for that function ready.