Building a Content-Based Recommender System

Author(s): Edoardo Bianchi

Originally published on Towards AI.

A simple web application for movie recommendations

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The recommender app. Image by the author.

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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