Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Statistics for Machine Learning

You're reading from   Statistics for Machine Learning Techniques for exploring supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning models with Python and R

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295758
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Pratap Dangeti Pratap Dangeti
Author Profile Icon Pratap Dangeti
Pratap Dangeti
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Journey from Statistics to Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Parallelism of Statistics and Machine Learning 3. Logistic Regression Versus Random Forest 4. Tree-Based Machine Learning Models 5. K-Nearest Neighbors and Naive Bayes 6. Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks 7. Recommendation Engines 8. Unsupervised Learning 9. Reinforcement 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 be interested in connecting with. Of course, these features drive their businesses big time and it is at the heart of the company's driving...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime