Skip to Content
Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python
book

Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python

by Rounak Banik
July 2018
Beginner to intermediate
146 pages
3h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python

Summary

With this, we come to the end of this chapter, as well as the main part of the book. In this book, we learned the following:

  • We were introduced to the world of recommender systems. We defined the recommendation problem mathematically and discussed the various types of recommendation engines that exist, as well as their advantages and disadvantages.
  • We then learned to perform data wrangling with the pandas library and familiarized ourselves with two of pandas, most powerful data structures: the series and the DataFrame.
  • With our newly found data wrangling techniques, we proceeded to build an IMDB Top 250 clone. We then improved on this model to build a knowledge-based recommender that took into account the recommended movies' genre, ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Hands-On Unsupervised Learning with Python

Hands-On Unsupervised Learning with Python

Giuseppe Bonaccorso

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788993753