This course is part of the Recommender Systems Specialization

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Recommender Systems SpecializationUniversity of Minnesota

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In this course you will learn how to evaluate recommender systems.  You will gain familiarity with several families of metrics, including ones to measure prediction accuracy, rank accuracy, decision-support, and other factors such as diversity, product coverage, and serendipity.  You will learn how different metrics relate to different user goals and business goals.  You will also learn how to rigorously conduct offline evaluations (i.e., how to prepare and sample data, and how to aggregate results).  And you will learn about online (experimental) evaluation.  At the completion of this course you will have the tools you need to compare different recommender system alternatives for a wide variety of uses.

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4.87/5 (8 Ratings)

Michael D. Ekstrand

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Computer Science, Boise State University

105,128 Learners

6 Courses

Joseph A Konstan

Distinguished McKnight Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor

Computer Science and Engineering

191,646 Learners

11 Courses

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota is among the largest public research universities in the country, offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional students a multitude of opportunities for study and research. Located at the heart of one of the nation’s most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul benefit from extensive partnerships with world-renowned health centers, international corporations, government agencies, and arts, nonprofit, and public service organizations.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

14 minutes to complete

Preface

14 minutes to complete

2 videos (Total 14 min)

2 hours to complete

Basic Prediction and Recommendation Metrics

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 57 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Advanced Metrics and Offline Evaluation

2 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 76 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Online Evaluation

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 66 min)

Week4

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Evaluation Design

1 hour to complete

3 videos (Total 31 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS: EVALUATION AND METRICS

by SSJun 12, 2017

Very good. But left out 1 star because one honors assignment did not have the material(base code) to download. Repeated questions were not answered in forum.

by MBDec 4, 2022

It was a great course! Everyone from variety of backgrounds like MS/PhD students or industry professionals that has basic Information Retrieval and ML knowledge could understand the course content.

by CSJul 15, 2017

A lot of very in detail theories and metrics. I wish it could have more hands on experience.

by LLJul 18, 2017

wonderful!!! They teach a lot what I did not expect!

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About the Recommender Systems Specialization

A Recommender System is a process that seeks to predict user preferences. This Specialization covers all the fundamental techniques in recommender systems, from non-personalized and project-association recommenders through content-based and collaborative filtering techniques, as well as advanced topics like matrix factorization, hybrid machine learning methods for recommender systems, and dimension reduction techniques for the user-product preference space.

This Specialization is designed to serve both the data mining expert who would want to implement techniques like collaborative filtering in their job, as well as the data literate marketing professional, who would want to gain more familiarity with these topics. The courses offer interactive, spreadsheet-based exercises to master different algorithms, along with an honors track where you can go into greater depth using the LensKit open source toolkit. By the end of this Specialization, you’ll be able to implement as well as evaluate recommender systems. The Capstone Project brings together the course material with a realistic recommender design and analysis project.

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