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Hands-On Recommendation Systems with Python

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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788993753

Length 146 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Scikit-learn

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Rounak Banik

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Recommender Systems FREE CHAPTER

2. Manipulating Data with the Pandas Library

3. Building an IMDB Top 250 Clone with Pandas

4. Building Content-Based Recommenders

5. Getting Started with Data Mining Techniques

6. Building Collaborative Filters

7. Hybrid Recommenders

8. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Who this book is for

If you are a Python developer and want to develop applications for social networking, news personalization, or smart advertising, this is the book for you. Basic knowledge of machine learning techniques will be helpful, but it's not mandatory.

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Authors (1)

Banik

Banik

Rounak Banik is a Young India Fellow and an ECE graduate from IIT Roorkee. He has worked as a software engineer at Parceed, a New York start-up, and Springboard, an EdTech start-up based in San Francisco and Bangalore. He has also served as a backend development instructor at Acadview, teaching Python and Django to around 35 college students from Delhi and Dehradun. He is an alumni of Springboard's data science career track. He has given talks at the SciPy India Conference and published popular tutorials on Kaggle and DataCamp.

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