Tag: recommender systems
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More Recommender Systems Resources
Last week I posted about Coursera’s Introduction to Recommender Systems course. Well, I believe it is the first MOOC on the topic, but there are other material available online. Open.Michigan course on Recommender Systems – the course was offered in 2009 Virginia Tech course on Recommender Systems – This course is a bit older, it…
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Coursera Class on Recommender Systems
In about 1 month, the course, Introduction to Recommender Systems, will begin on Coursera. The course is being offered by the Computer Science and Engineering Department from the University of Minnesota. The course is 14 weeks long and has 2 tracks: Programming Track – 6 different recommender systems will be programmed Concept Track – great…
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What is Maching Learning
Machine Learning is a term that can mean different things to different people. Andrew Ng, cofounder of Coursera and Professor at Stanford, provides two definitions in his popular Machine Learning Course. The first definition comes from Arthur Samuel around 1959. Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. The…
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Programmer’s Guide to Data Mining – A free ebook
Ron Zacharski is currently writing a data mining book, A Programmer’s Guide to Data Mining. The book is targeted at programmers that want to know when and how to apply recommendation engines and other data mining techniques. The book is still in the writing phase, but I can say the first couple chapters are excellent.…
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Free Textbook: Mining of Massive Datasets
A few professors from Stanford University have released version 1.1 of their textbook, Mining of Massive Datasets. The book has been created from materials used for a couple of Stanford computer science classes including large-scale data-mining and web mining. The book looks excellent and really focuses on the analysis of data at a large scale.…
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Stanford Machine Learning Class – What is covered
A few days ago, I mentioned that the Stanford Machine Learning class will be starting soon. I thought I should quickly mention some of the topics covered. The list also serves as a great outline for machine learning. Supervised Learning In supervised learning, one has a set of data with features and labels. Linear Regression…