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Big Data Analytics
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Big Data Analytics

by Venkat Ankam, Aravind Nallan
September 2016
Beginner to intermediate
326 pages
6h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Limitations of a recommendation system

Recommendation systems have some limitations. Understanding these limitations is important in order to build a successful recommendation system:

  • The cold-start problem: Collaborative filtering systems are based on the action of available data from similar users. If you are building a brand new recommendation system, you would have no user data to start with. You can use content-based filtering first and then move on to the collaborative filtering approach.
  • Scalability: As the number of users grow, the algorithms suffer scalability issues. If you have 10 million customers and 100,000 movies, you would have to create a sparse matrix with one trillion elements.
  • The lack of right data: Input data may not always ...
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ISBN: 9781785884696