Machine Learning with Spark - Second Edition
by Rajdeep Dua, Brian O'Neill, Stephen Boesch, Manpreet Singh Ghotra, Nick Pentreath
Personalization
Perhaps one of the most important potential applications of machine learning in MovieStream's business is personalization. Generally speaking, personalization refers to adapting the experience of a user and the content presented to them based on various factors, which might include user behavior data as well as external factors.
Recommendations are essentially a subset of personalization. Recommendation generally refers to presenting a user with a list of items that we hope the user will be interested in. Recommendations might be used in web pages (for example, recommendation-related products), via e-mails or other direct marketing channels, via mobile apps, and so on.
Personalization is very similar to recommendations, but ...
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