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Modern Scala Projects

You're reading from   Modern Scala Projects Leverage the power of Scala for building data-driven and high performance projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624114
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Building a Recommendation Engine

Millions of people order items from Amazon, where they save money and time. Recommendation algorithms are learned from customers, ordering preferences and bring them tailored you may also like recommendations, which are suggestions that help the customer update their cart or add interesting items to a wishlist for later. 

Building our own recommendations engine is a learning journey, where we hit several objectives along the way. At the problem formulation stage, we learn that recommendations are a collaborative filtering machine learning problem. We will take advantage of the Spark ML collaborative filtering algorithm to implement a recommendations engine that will generate ratings-based recommendations.

Netflix is famous for its movies where you might enjoy the recommendation feature. Back in 2006, Netflix announced a prize of $1 million...

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