How to Get Started With Recommender Systems
Recommender systems may be the most common type of predictive model that the average person may encounter.
They provide the basis for recommendations on services such as Amazon, Spotify, and Youtube.
Recommender systems are a huge daunting topic if you’re just getting started. There is a myriad of data preparation techniques, algorithms, and model evaluation methods.
Not all of the techniques will be relevant, and in fact, the state-of-the-art can be ignored for now as you will likely get very good results by focusing on the fundamentals, e.g. treat it as a straightforward classification or regression problem.
It is important to know the basics and have it all laid out for you in a systematic way. For this, I