February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
13h 29m
English
Overview
Online recommender systems help users find movies, jobs, restaurants—even romance! There’s an art in combining statistics, demographics, and query terms to achieve results that will delight them. Learn to build a recommender system the right way: it can make or break your application!
About the Technology
Recommender systems are everywhere, helping you find everything from movies to jobs, restaurants to hospitals, even romance. Using behavioral and demographic data, these systems make predictions about what users will be most interested in at a particular time, resulting in high-quality, ordered, personalized suggestions. Recommender systems are practically a necessity for keeping your site content current, useful, and interesting to your visitors.
About the Book
Practical Recommender Systems explains how recommender systems work and shows how to create and apply them for your site. After covering the basics, you’ll see how to collect user data and produce personalized recommendations. You’ll learn how to use the most popular recommendation algorithms and see examples of them in action on sites like Amazon and Netflix. Finally, the book covers scaling problems and other issues you’ll encounter as your site grows.
What's Inside
- How to collect and understand user behavior
- Collaborative and content-based filtering
- Machine learning algorithms
- Real-world examples in Python
About the Reader
Readers need intermediate programming and database skills.
About the Author
Kim Falk is an experienced data scientist who works daily with machine learning and recommender systems.
We interviewed Kim as a part of our Six Questions series. Check it out here.
Quotes
Covers the technical background and demonstrates implementations in clear and concise Python code.
- Andrew Collier, Exegetic
Have you wondered how Amazon and Netflix learn your tastes in products and movies, and provide relevant recommendations? This book explains how it’s done!
- Amit Lamba, Tech Overture
Everything about recommender systems, from entry-level to advanced concepts.
- Jaromir D.B. Nemec, DBN
A great and practical deep dive into recommender systems!
- Peter Hampton, Ulster University
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