Recommendation Systems: From Co-occurrence Counts to Probabilities

In the previous post, we demonstrated how to efficiently compute co-occurrences with matrix algebra and use those calculations to recommend books to users. Though we saw some sensible recommendations come out of this approach, it also suffers from a number of issues, including: The Gatsby Problem: popular books tend to be over represented in the… Read More Recommendation Systems: From Co-occurrence Counts to Probabilities