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intermediate Python • basics of NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, and machine learning
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read, process, and exploit user-item data • define recommender systems based on similarities • analyze algorithm output
Alejandro Bellogin
1 week · 4-6 hours per week · BEGINNER
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In this liveProject, you’ll determine what similarities there are between certain movies, and then build a recommendation system based on the similarities you’ve identified. Although you’ll be working with movie data for a streaming website, identifying similarities can help enhance recommendation engines for any item or product. You’ll develop a general technique for spotting similarities, then apply your learned similarities to build a recommendation engine. You’ll then enrich your model with collaborative and content-based data, and evaluate and compare your model.

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Alejandro Bellogin
Alejandro Bellogín is an Associate Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Previously, he held a post-doctoral research grant with the Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has supervised around ten Master Theses, one PhD thesis, and more than twenty Bachelor Theses on recommender systems. His publication history includes around 80 publications about different aspects of recommender systems.

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The liveProject is for intermediate Python programmers who know the basics of data science. To begin this liveProject, you will need to be familiar with the following:


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  • Basics of pandas, min. version 1.1.0
  • Basics of scikit-learn, min. version 0.20.3
  • Basics of Jupyter Notebook
TECHNIQUES
  • Algebra and calculus
  • Basics of machine learning

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