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Published inSep 2016
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Anshul Joshi
Anshul Joshi
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Anshul Joshi

Anshul Joshi is a data scientist with experience in recommendation systems, predictive modeling, neural networks, and high performance computing. His research interests encompass deep learning, artificial intelligence, and computational physics. Most of the time, he can be caught exploring GitHub or trying anything new he can get his hands on. You can also follow his personal blog.
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What is a recommendation system?


Recommendation frameworks use learning methods for making customized suggestions for data, items, or services. These recommendation systems generally have some level of interaction with the target individual. The amount of data that has been collected in recent years and the data that is being generated today proved a great boon for these recommendation systems.

Today, many recommendation systems are in operation and produce millions of recommendations per day:

  • Recommendations on e-commerce websites regarding the books, clothes, or items to buy

  • Advertisements suited to our tastes

  • Type of properties that we may be interested in

  • Travel packages suited to our tastes and budget

The current generation of recommender systems are able to make worthy recommendations and are scaled to millions of products and target users. It is required that even if the number of products or users increase, the recommender system should continue to work. But this becomes another challenge...

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Julia for Data Science
Published in: Sep 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785289699

Author (1)

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Anshul Joshi

Anshul Joshi is a data scientist with experience in recommendation systems, predictive modeling, neural networks, and high performance computing. His research interests encompass deep learning, artificial intelligence, and computational physics. Most of the time, he can be caught exploring GitHub or trying anything new he can get his hands on. You can also follow his personal blog.
Read more about Anshul Joshi