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Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python

By : Rounak Banik
Book Image

Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python

By: Rounak Banik

Overview of this book

Recommendation systems are at the heart of almost every internet business today; from Facebook to Net?ix to Amazon. Providing good recommendations, whether it's friends, movies, or groceries, goes a long way in defining user experience and enticing your customers to use your platform. This book shows you how to do just that. You will learn about the different kinds of recommenders used in the industry and see how to build them from scratch using Python. No need to wade through tons of machine learning theory—you'll get started with building and learning about recommenders as quickly as possible.. In this book, you will build an IMDB Top 250 clone, a content-based engine that works on movie metadata. You'll use collaborative filters to make use of customer behavior data, and a Hybrid Recommender that incorporates content based and collaborative filtering techniques  With this book, all you need to get started with building recommendation systems is a familiarity with Python, and by the time you're fnished, you will have a great grasp of how recommenders work and be in a strong position to apply the techniques that you will learn to your own problem domains.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Model-based approaches

The collaborative filters we have built thus far are known as memory-based filters. This is because they only make use of similarity metrics to come up with their results. They learn any parameters from the data or assign classes/clusters to the data. In other words, they do not make use of machine learning algorithms.

In this section, we will take a look at some filters that do. We spent an entire chapter looking at various supervised and unsupervised learning techniques. The time has finally come to see them in action and test their potency.

Clustering

In our weighted mean-based filter, we took every user into consideration when trying to predict the final rating. In contrast, our demographic-based...