Practical Recommender Systems

Chapter 5. Non-personalized recommendations

You’ll find recommendations in this chapter, but they’re not personalized. That doesn’t mean that this chapter will be less important.

• You’ll learn that using non-personalized recommendations can also show interesting content.
• You’ll see examples that show why your site should order content, and you’ll learn how to build charts to show users what’s popular and that highlight items of interest to other users.
• You’ll learn how to calculate association rules by creating itemsets based on the shopping basket and then use those rules to create seeded recommendations.
• You’ll see how the recommender component is implemented, which is the core component in the MovieGEEKs example site and the one that provides ...