Association Rule Mining
This chapter is ordered in ascending complexity. We will start with our use case, designing a cross-sell campaign for an imaginative retailer. We will define the goals for this campaign and the success criteria for these goals. Having defined our problem, we will proceed to our first recommendation algorithm, association rule mining. Association rule mining, also called market basket analysis, is a method used to analyze transaction data to extract product associations.
The subsequent sections are devoted to unveiling the plain vanilla version of association rule mining and introducing some of the interest measures. We will then proceed to find ways to establish the minimum support and confidence thresholds, the major ...
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