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Machine Learning Solutions

You're reading from   Machine Learning Solutions Expert techniques to tackle complex machine learning problems using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788390040
Length 566 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jalaj Thanaki Jalaj Thanaki
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Machine Learning Solutions
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. Credit Risk Modeling 2. Stock Market Price Prediction FREE CHAPTER 3. Customer Analytics 4. Recommendation Systems for E-Commerce 5. Sentiment Analysis 6. Job Recommendation Engine 7. Text Summarization 8. Developing Chatbots 9. Building a Real-Time Object Recognition App 10. Face Recognition and Face Emotion Recognition 11. Building Gaming Bot List of Cheat Sheets Strategy for Wining Hackathons Index

Chapter 4. Recommendation Systems for E-Commerce

In the previous three chapters, we have covered a lot of tips and tricks that can be used to build various types of analytics products. In this chapter, we are going to build a recommendation engine for the e-commerce domain. Let's go over some background of recommendation systems. Then, we will discuss the problem statement that we are trying to solve in this chapter.

Let's take a relatable example from real life. We surf videos on YouTube almost every day, right? Suppose you saw some videos related to rock music on YouTube last night. This morning, when you open your YouTube, you may find that there are a couple of suggested YouTube channels with good videos on rock music. YouTube actually changes its suggestions based on your watching habits. Do you want to know how that algorithm works? Let's take another example that might be useful to us in this chapter. Most of us buy stuff from various e-commerce sites. Suppose you are trying to purchase...

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