Building a Recommendation System with R

Evaluating data-mining algorithms

In the previous sections, we have seen various data-mining techniques used in recommender systems. In this section, you will learn how to evaluate models built using data-mining techniques. The ultimate goal for any data analytics model is to perform well on future data. This objective could be achieved only if we build a model that is efficient and robust during the development stage.

While evaluating any model, the most important things we need to consider are as follows:

• Whether the model is over fitting or under fitting
• How well the model fits the future data or test data

Under fitting, also known as bias, is a scenario when the model doesn't even perform well on training data. This means that we fit a less robust ...