Movie Recommendation Dashboard

To showcase SEMOSS at the Strata Data Conference, I was responsible for utilizing the connect to API feature. In doing this, I made it my goal to make it somewhat interesting, and what is more interesting than movies? I'm a big movie fan myself, so I decided to make a dashboard centered around my interests.

The data flow might be the most interesting part of this dashboard. First, I utilize SEMOSS text input field to allow a user to type in a movie. From there, I encode the input to send to the Taste Dive API to get a list of movies related to the input (which I then put in a word cloud). At the same time, I take that same input and run it through the New York Times API to get the NYT Review of said movie.

One of the issues I ran into was that access is limited to the Taste Dive API that I was trying to use. To avoid this during the conference, I gathered 10 different access keys from people on the team and proceeded to loop through each one on 'execute' to spread out which keys hit the API. If you start not to see new results, I recommend opening up my page in Incognito and you might see better results. Check it out below!