Deep Dive into Netflix’s Recommender System

How Netflix achieved 80% stream time through personalization

David Chong
Towards Data Science
12 min readApr 30, 2020

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Netflix is synonymous to most people in this day and age as the go-to streaming service for movies and tv shows. What most people do not know, however, is that Netflix started out in the late 1990s with a subscription-based model, posting DVDs to people’s homes in the US.

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