The global recommendation engine market is predicted to grow 37% annually through 2030 (Straits Times). The expertise to predict user preferences and drive engagement using AI recommendation system skills has become an essential business need and a highly sought-after skill using vector databases.



Vector Database Projects: AI Recommendation Systems
This course is part of Vector Database Fundamentals Specialization


Instructors: IBM Skills Network Team
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What you'll learn
Job-ready proficiency with AI-powered database recommendation systems that you can immediately put to work and highlight on LinkedIn.
How to use Hugging Face natural language processing (NLP) tools, embeddings, and PDF classification skills for similarity search.
Build a real-world food search recommendation system using a Hugging face model and algorithms with Chroma DB.
Implement a customized real-world NLP job search vector database recommendation system using your choice of vector database platform.
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There are 2 modules in this course
In this module, you will learn about Hugging Face, a growing, open-source AI community. You will learn about several of their crowd-sourced NLP models and how to incorporate them into your projects. This module also includes a practice project, a non-graded project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building a recommendation system similar to the final project.
What's included
2 videos2 readings3 app items3 plugins
In this module, you will work on the final, graded project independently and will be graded by one of your peers. You will also evaluate one of your peers’ projects using a rubric with objective grading criteria. The project has two parts: in Part 1, you’ll build a job recommendation system that returns the top five results based on a text search; in Part 2, you’ll create a food recommendation system that performs a similar task using a PDF as input. Finally, you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your comprehension of the final project by completing a graded quiz.
What's included
2 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 app item1 plugin
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