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Ranking Movie Actors Using PageRank Algorithm
Exploring Actor Ranks with Imdb Data and PageRank Algo
Introduction
I was trying to create a ranking of actors who worked in all the movies released that year using Google’s popular PageRank algorithm. It was not based on success of movies of an actor. It was rather based on how other actors who worked with them worked with other actors and titles in the same year. if more important actors worked with an actor then that actor becomes import one too. The importance of actor is determined by PageRank algo. An actor-actor graph is created from actor movie graph for this purpose.
The actors movie relations are stored in neo4j graph database. Following is the structures of the data. The data was loaded from imdb dataset page.
Following are the attributes of a movie node :
Following are the attributes of an actor node:
