For people who care what they watch. Here’s a practical, behind-the-scenes look at everything I’ve added to FilmFan over the last six months—across the app experience, data pipeline, ML features, and cloud/dev-ops. It’s been a busy stretch: faster UI, smarter reviews, sturdier data, leaner infrastructure, and a sharper model… What FilmFan is: a personalised film-recommender Read more

Prologue: Film Fan is your very own personalised film recommendation engine. Please check it out here: filmfan.ai. A full walkthrough of the site’s features and inspiration is covered in a previous post: here. This is a 5 part series to break down how I designed and built Film Fan, from all angles: data, engineering, analysis, Read more

Prologue: Film Fan is your very own personalised film recommendation engine. Please check it out here: filmfan.ai. A full walkthrough of the site’s features and inspiration is covered in a previous post: here. This is a 5 part series to break down how I designed and built Film Fan, from all angles: data, engineering, analysis, Read more

Prologue: Film Fan is your very own personalised film recommendation engine. Please check it out here: filmfan.ai. A full walkthrough of the site’s features and inspiration is covered in a previous post: here. This is a 5 part series to break down how I designed and built Film Fan, from all angles: data, engineering, analysis, Read more

Epilogue: Film Fan is your very own personalised film recommendation engine. Please check it out here: filmfan.ai. A full walkthrough of the site’s features and inspiration is covered in a previous post: here. This is a 5 part series to break down how I designed and built Film Fan, from all angles: data, engineering, analysis, Read more

Film Fan is your very own personalised film recommendation engine. Please check it out here: filmfan.ai. A full walkthrough of the site’s features and inspiration is covered in a previous post: here. In this 5 part series, I will break down how I designed and built Film Fan, taking into consideration my requirements and goals Read more

There’s so many films to watch these days from a myriad of sources, but have you ever stopped to think how many you will actually watch in your lifetime? As an overall fraction, the answer is not many. Do you then just watch what is on offer or would you rather watch only the best Read more

Navigating politics can often feel like a revolving door of complaints and leadership changes. But let’s pause for a moment. Can every leader truly be all that bad? (A few corruption cases aside), it’s most likely they were doing their best. Ironically, we find ourselves mirroring these dynamics in our gripes about data projects within Read more