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Scala Machine Learning Projects

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Scala Machine Learning Projects

Overview of this book

Machine learning has had a huge impact on academia and industry by turning data into actionable information. Scala has seen a steady rise in adoption over the past few years, especially in the fields of data science and analytics. This book is for data scientists, data engineers, and deep learning enthusiasts who have a background in complex numerical computing and want to know more hands-on machine learning application development. If you're well versed in machine learning concepts and want to expand your knowledge by delving into the practical implementation of these concepts using the power of Scala, then this book is what you need! Through 11 end-to-end projects, you will be acquainted with popular machine learning libraries such as Spark ML, H2O, DeepLearning4j, and MXNet. At the end, you will be able to use numerical computing and functional programming to carry out complex numerical tasks to develop, build, and deploy research or commercial projects in a production-ready environment.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Recommendation system


A recommendation system (that is, recommendation engine or RE) is a subclass of information filtering systems that helps predict the rating or preference based on the ratings given by users to an item. In recent years, recommendation systems have become increasingly popular. In short, a recommender system tries to predict potential items a user might be interested in based on history for other users.

Consequently, they're being used in many areas such as movies, music, news, books, research articles, search queries, social tags, products, collaborations, comedy, restaurants, fashion, financial services, life insurance, and online dating. There are a couple of ways to develop recommendation engines that typically produce a list of recommendations, for example, collaborative and content-based filtering or the personality-based approach.

Collaborative filtering approaches

Using collaborative filtering approaches, an RE can be built based on a user's past behavior where numerical...