Data preprocessing is a crucial step for any data analysis problem. The model's accuracy depends mostly on the quality of the data. In general, any data preprocessing step involves data cleansing, transformations, identifying missing values, and how they should be treated. Only the preprocessed data can be fed into a machine-learning algorithm. In this section, we will focus mainly on data preprocessing techniques. These techniques include similarity measurements (such as Euclidean distance, Cosine distance, and Pearson coefficient) and dimensionality-reduction techniques, such as Principal component analysis (PCA), which are widely used in recommender systems. Apart from PCA, we have singular value decomposition (SVD), subset feature selection methods to reduce the dimensions of the dataset, but we limit our study to PCA.
Building a Recommendation System with R
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
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Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with Recommender Systems
Data Mining Techniques Used in Recommender Systems
Recommender Systems
Evaluating the Recommender Systems
Case Study – Building Your Own Recommendation Engine
References
Index
Customer Reviews