function [Ynorm, Ymean] = normalizeRatings(Y, R) %NORMALIZERATINGS Preprocess data by subtracting mean rating for every %movie (every row) % [Ynorm, Ymean] = NORMALIZERATINGS(Y, R) normalized Y so that each movie % has a rating of 0 on average, and returns the mean rating in Ymean. % [m, n] = size(Y); Ymean = zeros(m, 1); Ynorm = zeros(size(Y)); for i = 1:m idx = find(R(i, :) == 1); Ymean(i) = mean(Y(i, idx)); Ynorm(i, idx) = Y(i, idx) - Ymean(i); end end