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Building a Recommendation System with R

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Building a Recommendation System with R

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Building a Recommendation System with R
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Hybrid systems


We build hybrid recommender systems by combining various recommender systems to build a more robust system. By combining various recommender systems, we can eliminate the disadvantages of one system with the advantages of another system and thus build a more robust system. For example, by combining collaborative filtering methods, where the model fails when new items don't have ratings, with content-based systems, where feature information about the items is available, new items can be recommended more accurately and efficiently.

Before building a hybrid model, we consider the following questions:

  • What techniques should be combined to achieve the business solution?

  • How should we combine various techniques and their results for better predictions?