Practical Recommender Systems
Falk, Kim
ISBN 10: 1617292702 ISBN 13: 9781617292705
Published by Manning Publications, 2019
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Online recommender systems help users find movies, jobs, restaurants-even romance! There's an art in combining statistics, demographics, and query terms to achieve results that will delight them. Learn to build a recommender system the right way: it can make or break your application!
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About the Technology
Recommender systems are everywhere, helping you find everything from movies to jobs, restaurants to hospitals, even romance. Using behavioral and demographic data, these systems make predictions about what users will be most interested in at a particular time, resulting in high-quality, ordered, personalized suggestions. Recommender systems are practically a necessity for keeping your site content current, useful, and interesting to your visitors.
About the Book
Practical Recommender Systems explains how recommender systems work and shows how to create and apply them for your site. After covering the basics, you'll see how to collect user data and produce personalized recommendations. You'll learn how to use the most popular recommendation algorithms and see examples of them in action on sites like Amazon and Netflix. Finally, the book covers scaling problems and other issues you'll encounter as your site grows.
What's inside
- How to collect and understand user behavior
- Collaborative and content-based filtering
- Machine learning algorithms
- Real-world examples in Python
About the Reader
Readers need intermediate programming and database skills.
About the Author
Kim Falk is an experienced data scientist who works daily with machine learning and recommender systems.
Table of Contents
- What is a recommender?
- User behavior and how to collect it
- Monitoring the system
- Ratings and how to calculate them
- Non-personalized recommendations
- The user (and content) who came in from the cold
- Finding similarities among users and among content
- Collaborative filtering in the neighborhood
- Evaluating and testing your recommender
- Content-based filtering
- Finding hidden genres with matrix factorization
- Taking the best of all algorithms: implementing hybrid recommenders
- Ranking and learning to rank
- Future of recommender systems
PART 1 - GETTING READY FOR RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS
PART 2 - RECOMMENDER ALGORITHMS
About the Author: Kim Falk is a Data Scientist at Adform, where he is working on recommender systems. He has experience in providing recommendations for large entertainment companies and working with big data solutions.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Practical Recommender Systems
Publisher: Manning Publications
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good