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
In this first post in a series on recommendation systems, we’re going to develop a powerful but highly intuitive representation for user behavior that will allow us to easily make recommendations. Since we’re going to be making heavy use of the Goodreads data set in the series, we’ll formulate our basic recommendation system problem as… Read More Recommendation Systems: Co-occurrence Calculations
Today, I am announcing a series of posts I am developing about recommendation systems. The series is aimed at software/machine learning engineers. I have two goals for the series: Provide practical and implementable strategies for delivering recommendations in real-time Present the mathematical intuition behind recommender problems The reason for the first goal is that I… Read More A Practical Series on Recommendation Systems