Book recommendation system

In this practical section, we will build a recommendation system that will suggest different books to its online users, similar to the system we see on Amazon's website. Before we begin creating a recommendation system, we first need a dataset. Once we have one, we will then analyze that dataset as per our requirements and then apply our findings to recommend different items to our users.

Let's get started by setting up the dataset for our book recommendation system.

Dataset

At this stage, we should fully understand the power of data. If you don't have data, or have very sparse data, than it is almost impossible to build a recommendation system. Note that your data needn't be...