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David Julian
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David Julian is a freelance technology consultant and educator. He has worked as a consultant for government, private, and community organizations on a variety of projects, including using machine learning to detect insect outbreaks in controlled agricultural environments (Urban Ecological Systems Ltd., Bluesmart Farms), designing and implementing event management data systems (Sustainable Industry Expo, Lismore City Council), and designing multimedia interactive installations (Adelaide University). He has also written Designing Machine Learning Systems With Python for Packt Publishing and was a technical reviewer for Python Machine Learning and Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python - Second Edition, published by Packt.
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Now, we will move on to some real-world machine learning scenarios. First, we will build a recommender system, and then we will look into some integrated pest management systems in greenhouses.

Building a recommender system

Recommender systems are a type of information filtering, and there are two general approaches: content-based filtering and collaborative filtering. In content-based filtering, the system attempts to model a user's long term interests and select items based on this. On the other hand, collaborative filtering chooses items based on the correlation with items chosen by people with similar preferences. As you would expect, many systems use a hybrid of these two approaches.

Content-based filtering

Content-based filtering uses the content of items, which is represented as a set of descriptor terms, and matches them with a user profile. A user profile is constructed using the same terms extracted from items that the user has previously viewed. A typical online...

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David Julian is a freelance technology consultant and educator. He has worked as a consultant for government, private, and community organizations on a variety of projects, including using machine learning to detect insect outbreaks in controlled agricultural environments (Urban Ecological Systems Ltd., Bluesmart Farms), designing and implementing event management data systems (Sustainable Industry Expo, Lismore City Council), and designing multimedia interactive installations (Adelaide University). He has also written Designing Machine Learning Systems With Python for Packt Publishing and was a technical reviewer for Python Machine Learning and Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python - Second Edition, published by Packt.
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