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Making recommendations with Recommendation

For our learning example, we'll use Recommendation. It is the simplest of the available options, and it's a good teaching device, as it will allow us to further experiment with its plug-and-play algorithms and configurable model generators.

Before we can do anything interesting, though, we need to make sure that we have the package installed:

 pkg> add Recommendation#master  
 julia> using Recommendation 

Please note that I'm using the #master version, because the tagged version, at the time of writing this book, was not yet fully updated for Julia 1.0.

The workflow for setting up a recommender with Recommendation involves three steps:

1. Setting up the training data

2. Instantiating and training a recommender ...