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Building a Recommendation System with R

Building a Recommendation System with R

By : Usuelli
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Building a Recommendation System with R

Building a Recommendation System with R

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Overview of this book

A recommendation system performs extensive data analysis in order to generate suggestions to its users about what might interest them. R has recently become one of the most popular programming languages for the data analysis. Its structure allows you to interactively explore the data and its modules contain the most cutting-edge techniques thanks to its wide international community. This distinctive feature of the R language makes it a preferred choice for developers who are looking to build recommendation systems. The book will help you understand how to build recommender systems using R. It starts off by explaining the basics of data mining and machine learning. Next, you will be familiarized with how to build and optimize recommender models using R. Following that, you will be given an overview of the most popular recommendation techniques. Finally, you will learn to implement all the concepts you have learned throughout the book to build a recommender system.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Citation
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started with Recommender Systems
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1. Getting Started with Recommender Systems
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Understanding recommender systems
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The structure of the book
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Collaborative filtering recommender systems
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Content-based recommender systems
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Knowledge-based recommender systems
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Hybrid systems
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Evaluation techniques
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A case study
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The future scope
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Summary
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2. Data Mining Techniques Used in Recommender Systems
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2. Data Mining Techniques Used in Recommender Systems
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Solving a data analysis problem
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Data preprocessing techniques
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Data mining techniques
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Cluster analysis
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Decision trees
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Ensemble methods
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Evaluating data-mining algorithms
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3. Recommender Systems
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3. Recommender Systems
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R package for recommendation – recommenderlab
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Data exploration
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Data preparation
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Item-based collaborative filtering
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User-based collaborative filtering
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User-based collaborative filtering on binary data
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Content-based filtering
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Hybrid recommender systems
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Knowledge-based recommender systems
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4. Evaluating the Recommender Systems
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4. Evaluating the Recommender Systems
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Preparing the data to evaluate the models
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Evaluating recommender techniques
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Identifying the most suitable model
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5. Case Study – Building Your Own Recommendation Engine
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5. Case Study – Building Your Own Recommendation Engine
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Preparing the data
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Building the model
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Evaluating and optimizing the model
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A. References
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A. References
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Index
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Index

Identifying the most suitable model

The previous chapter showed you how to evaluate a model. The performance indices are useful to compare different models and/or parameters. Applying different techniques on the same data, we can compare a performance index to pick the most appropriate recommender. Since there are different evaluation metrics, there is no objective way to do it.

The starting point is the k-fold evaluation framework that we defined in the previous section. It is stored inside eval_sets.

Comparing models

In order to compare different models, we first need to define them. Each model is stored in a list with its name and parameters. The components of the list are as follows:

  • name: This is the model name.
  • param: This is a list with its parameters. It can be NULL, if all the parameters are left at their defaults.

For instance, that's how we can define an item-based collaborative filtering by setting the k parameter to 20:

list(name = "IBCF", param = list(k = 20))

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