Recommendation engine – let's open a restaurant

An important reason for including a recommendation engine as one of our use cases is to emphasize how we can link the existing data to frame it as an analytics problem and then to use existing solutions to solve it reliably. We don't expect to have cutting edge accuracy with this recommendation engine but we use it to give you a healthy learning of working on such problems as and when they arrive. Before we dive into building a recommendation engine, a (very) brief introduction is appropriate.

Recommendation engine – the clichés

Recommendation engines (or systems) are one of the most recognized machine learning applications in the industry today. To say that a lot of people equate recommendation engines to machine learning won't be an exaggeration. They command such immense visibility for a simple reason: they integrate with business and they work. A recommendation engine is ubiquitous in today's technology landscape. They are present on e-commerce...