Data Science Recommendation Engine Fundamentals – Part 03

Welcome to Post 3 in a series of posts on Data Science – Recommendation Engines.

In this post, we discuss an important aspect one should remember always while learning Recommendation Engines (RE). For this reason, this post is intentionally kept short.

Whenever you are learning RE, establish below idea at the back of your mind.

Recommendation Engines means:

Users “searching” for content -> Your RE model should provide “relevant” results -> Based on “Taste”

Simply put,Search -> Relevance -> Taste

To achieve above, identify the popularity of “Items” based on either current user history with your website or/and other similar users’ history.

For example, “Navigation Visits” of current or other users can be used to provide the “Relevant” search results/recommendations.

Here are the links to previous posts Part 01 Part 02