Building a Content-Based Recommender System
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Edoardo Bianchi
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Recommender systems (RSs) are everywhere. Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and many more services and apps we use every day have in the backend some sort of recommendation engine.
RSs help users to find items they are interested in, and this can increase engagement on the platform: if a platform suggests items of interest, users will spend more time on that platform.
I just completed the RS course at the Free University of Bolzano, and I realized how broader this field is. There are many techniques… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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