Building the baseline approach
From this section onward, we will focus on how to build the basic version of the recommendation engine (which means the recommendation system in the context of this chapter). In order to develop the baseline approach, we will be using the content-based approach. These are the topics that we will be covering:
Understanding the basic concepts
Implementing the baseline approach
Understanding the testing matrix
Testing the result of the baseline approach
Problems with the baseline approach
Learning optimization tricks for the baseline approach
Without wasting any time, let's look at how the content-based approach has been used to build the recommendation engine.
Understanding the basic concepts
As I've specified earlier, we are using the content-based approach. You must be wondering what this approach is and how I have decided to use it. In order to find the answers to these questions, we need to understand the approach first, and then we can discuss why I chose it.
