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Mastering Recommendation Systems with Python Specialization

EDUCBA

Mastering Recommendation Systems with Python Specialization

Build Intelligent Recommenders Using Python.

Build smart recommender systems using Python, collaborative filtering, and content-based models.

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Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Understand and differentiate between collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, and hybrid recommendation techniques.

  • Develop end-to-end recommendation systems using Python and libraries such as Surprise, Pandas, and Scikit-learn.

  • Evaluate and optimize recommendation models using performance metrics like RMSE, MAE, and similarity scoring.

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Specialization - 4 course series

Recommendation Engine - Basics

Recommendation Engine - Basics

Course 1, 3 hours

What you'll learn

  • Explain how recommendation systems use collaborative filtering to generate personalized movie recommendations.

  • Prepare datasets and configure a Python environment using Anaconda and the Surprise library.

  • Construct and validate a movie recommendation model using cross-validation with RMSE and MAE.

  • Apply Python functions to generate and interpret personalized movie predictions from user data.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Modeling
Category: Data Validation
Project on Recommendation Engine - Book Recommender

Project on Recommendation Engine - Book Recommender

Course 2, 5 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify the core components and workflow of a book recommendation system using structured data and user-defined filters.

  • Apply data preprocessing and feature engineering techniques to prepare publication metadata for recommendation filtering.

  • Construct a content-based recommendation engine using TF-IDF, text preprocessing, and similarity scoring techniques.

  • Develop personalized book recommendations by combining and vectorizing multiple text-based features and metadata.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Text Mining
Category: Project Design
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Metadata Management
Category: Data Integration
Category: Deep Learning
Category: Python Programming
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Unstructured Data

What you'll learn

  • Describe the workflow of a baseline book recommendation system using user interaction data.

  • Transform user and book identifiers into indexed numerical formats for matrix-based computations.

  • Implement data preprocessing and explain the conceptual structure of hybrid filtering systems.

  • Construct a hybrid recommendation model by integrating collaborative and content-based filtering.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Natural Language Processing
Develop a Movie Recommendation Engine

Develop a Movie Recommendation Engine

Course 4, 3 hours

What you'll learn

  • Construct a popularity-based movie recommendation engine using Python and evaluate recommendations using popularity metrics.

  • Develop a content-based movie recommendation engine by extracting and analyzing movie metadata to generate personalized recommendations.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Data Processing
Category: Taxonomy
Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Machine Learning Methods
Category: Python Programming

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