One thing I love to stumble upon is a really useful GitHub repository. You can find repositories that contain everything from hand-curated tutorials on machine learning to libraries that will save you dozens of lines of code when using Elasticsearch. The trouble is, finding these libraries is far more difficult than it should be. Fortunately, we now have the knowledge to leverage the GitHub API in a way that will help us to find these code gems.
We're going to be using the GitHub API to create a recommendation engine based on collaborative filtering. The plan is to get all of the repositories I've starred over time and to then get all of the creators of those repositories to find what repositories they've ...
