Recommender Module
Why Recommender?
among the most popular applications of data science
today.
used to predict the "rating" or "preference" that a user
would give to an item.
Almost every major tech company has applied them: Amazon
uses it to suggest products to customers and Facebook uses it
to recommend pages to like and people to follow.
For some companies like Netflix,
Amazon Prime, Hulu, and
Hotstar, the business model and its success revolves around
the potency of their recommendations.
Netflix even offered a million dollars in 2009 to anyone who
could improve its system by 10%.
Popular systems for domains like restaurants, movies, and
online dating.
Have also been developed to explore research articles &
collaborators and
financial services.
YouTube: uses it at a large scale to suggest you videos based
on your history. E.g. if you watch a lot of anime videos, it
would suggest similar ones.