Module: Collaborative Filtering

How do we use user ratings to recommend something ?

Learning Outcomes

Understand how to analyse user rating data

You understand

what are the different types of user rating data
how to analyze user rating data using collaborative filtering
how to use collaborative filtering techniques to make recommendations
the limitations of collaborative filtering
how to apply collaborative filtering to real world scenarios

Readings

ICDM 2008 Paper

Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets

Spark MLlib: Collaborative Filtering

Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets

Quick Guide to Build a Recommendation Engine in Python

Recommender Systems & Collaborative Filtering

Python Package: Implicit

Fast Python Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Datasets.

Least Squares Approximation

Khan Academy Video

Experiential Learning

Ex3. Analyzing Movie Ratings Data

Applying everything you have learned to ratings data

Python Hands-on

HW5

Collaborative Filtering

WI