|
5 |
DATA REDUCTION
Recommender systems rely on data as input, and this can be collected through an assortment of channels including sign-up forms, web crawling, logs of online user behavior, IP and geographic tracking, and many other channels.
There are two major categories of input data: structured data and unstructured data. Structured data is information that resides in a fixed field within a record or file. This generally comprises information stored in rows and columns with a defined schema (a blueprint of how the database is constructed). Examples of structured data include event registration information stored in the rows and columns of a spreadsheet or user profiles stored in a relational database, including users’ personal ...
Get Machine Learning: Make Your Own Recommender System now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.