Statistics for Machine Learning

Recommendation Engines

Recommendation engines (REs) are most famously used for explaining what machine learning is to any unknown person or a newbie who wants to understand the field of machine learning. A classic example could be how Amazon recommends books similar to the ones you have bought, which you may also like very much! Also, empirically, the recommender engine seems to be an example of large-scale machine learning that everyone understands, or perhaps already understood. But, nonetheless, recommendation engines are being used everywhere. For example, the people you may know feature in Facebook or LinkedIn, which recommends by showing the most probable people you might like to befriend or professionals in your network who you might ...