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In this liveProject, you’ll build a movie recommendation system that reduces the dimensionality of the spaces involved to enhance its performance so that latent representations are identified, which aim to capture users and items interactions with the system on the same latent vector space. You’ll work to compute clusters on the movies and clients of your site, and utilize latent representations of users and items with a reduced dimensionality to compute similarities. Once you’ve established this data, you’ll build and test your recommendation engine.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
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prerequisites
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:
TOOLS
- Intermediate Python, min. version 3.6.0
- Basics of data structures
- Basics of NumPy, min. version 1.19.0
- Basics of Pandas, min. version 1.1.0
- Basics of scikit-learn, min. version 0.20.3
- Basics of Jupyter Notebook
- Algebra and calculus
- Basics of machine learning
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll learn how to build powerful recommendation systems using the most popular tools in the Python data ecosystem.
- Read, process, and exploit user-item data
- Compute clusters of users and items based on similarities
- Compute similarities on top of learned latent representations based on user and item interactions
- Define recommender systems based on similarity clusters and similarities from latent representations
- Analyze algorithm output
- Tune model settings to improve its results
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Dimensionality Reduction project for free
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