September 2015
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
13h 43m
English
Slope One recommenders are a part of a family of algorithms introduced in a 2005 paper by Daniel Lemire and Anna Maclachlan. In this chapter, we'll introduce the weighted Slope One recommender.
You can read the paper introducing the Slope One recommender at http://lemire.me/fr/abstracts/SDM2005.html.
To illustrate how weighted Slope One recommendation works, let's consider the simple example of four users, labeled W, X, Y, and Z, who have rated three movies—Amadeus, Braveheart, and Casablanca. The ratings each user has provided are illustrated in the following diagram:

As with any recommendation problem, we're looking to ...
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