Build Your First Recommendation Engine
Last Updated on July 26, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Songhao Wu
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Have you wondered why social media always feed you the thing you want to see?
Have you always gotten addicted to the next video/feed in the social media and end up browsing for hours?
The logic behind the recommendation engine is definitely very complicated. This article will give you a gist of the logic behind the recommendation engine. We will also build our first recommendation engine together using the Singapore second-hand car market data.
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