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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
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Collaborative filtering


Collaborative filtering is a famous algorithm that is based on the likings or the behavior of other users or peers unlike the content-based filtering that we studied in the previous section.

Collaborative filtering:

  • If the user likes some of the things that other users or peers have shown an inclination to, then the preferences of these users can be recommended to the desired user

  • It is referred to as the "nearest neighbor recommendation"

To implement collaborative filtering, some assumptions are made:

  • Likings or the behavior of peers or other users can be taken into consideration to understand and predict for the desired user. Therefore, an assumption is made that the desired user has similar tastes as the other users taken into consideration here.

  • If the user got a recommendation in the past based on ratings of a group of users, then the user would have a similar taste with that group.

There are different types of collaborative filtering:

  • Memory-based collaborative filtering...