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Julia for Data Science

By : Anshul Joshi
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Book Image

Julia for Data Science

2 (1)
By: Anshul Joshi

Overview of this book

Julia is a fast and high performing language that's perfectly suited to data science with a mature package ecosystem and is now feature complete. It is a good tool for a data science practitioner. There was a famous post at Harvard Business Review that Data Scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century. (https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century). This book will help you get familiarised with Julia's rich ecosystem, which is continuously evolving, allowing you to stay on top of your game. This book contains the essentials of data science and gives a high-level overview of advanced statistics and techniques. You will dive in and will work on generating insights by performing inferential statistics, and will reveal hidden patterns and trends using data mining. This has the practical coverage of statistics and machine learning. You will develop knowledge to build statistical models and machine learning systems in Julia with attractive visualizations. You will then delve into the world of Deep learning in Julia and will understand the framework, Mocha.jl with which you can create artificial neural networks and implement deep learning. This book addresses the challenges of real-world data science problems, including data cleaning, data preparation, inferential statistics, statistical modeling, building high-performance machine learning systems and creating effective visualizations using Julia.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Julia for Data Science
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Chapter 10. Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation System

Every day, we are immersed with decisions and choices. These can range from our clothes to the movies we can watch or what to eat when we order online. We take decisions in business, too. For instance, which stock we should invest in. The set of choices that we have can vary depending on what we are actually doing and what we want. For example, when buying clothes online from Flipkart or Amazon we see hundreds or thousands of choices. Amazon's Kindle store is so huge that no one can read all the books in their lifetime. To make these decisions, we require some background information and maybe a little help in knowing what can be best for us.

Generally, individuals depend on suggestions from their companions or the counsel of specialists to choose and make decisions. They may observe their friends or trusted people to make the same decisions as them. These include either paying a good amount on the ticket and go to watch a movie...