recommender-engine 0.3.0

A recommendation application using either item-based or user-based approaches

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Recommender is a recommendation application using either item-based or user-based approaches.

Recommender is at version v0.3.0, also see change log for more details on release history.

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Table of contents

1. Usage
2. Contribution
3. License

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Usage

Install with pip

$ pip install recommender-engine

API

make_recommendation(person_to_recommend, preference_space, recommender_approach='user_based', number_of_items_to_recommend=10, similarity_measure='euclidean_distance')

	Return list of recommendation items based on the chosen approach and similarity emasure

	Parameters
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	person_to_recommend (str): user id/name to recommend to

	preference_space (dict):  keys are user id/name and values are dictionary of items and ratings

	recommender_approach (str): support 'user_based' (default) or 'item_based'

	number_of_items_to_recommend (int): number of items to recommend (default=10)

	similarity_measure (str): similarity measurement method , support 'euclidean_distance' (default), 'cosine' or 'pearson_correlation'

Example

>>> from recommender_engine import make_recommendation
>>>	result = make_recommendation(person_to_recommend = "userA",
								 preference_space = preference_space,
								 recommender_approach = 'user_based',
								 number_of_items_to_recommend = 10,
								 similarity_measure = 'euclidean_distance')

The preference space is dictionary data structure where keys are users and values are dictionary of items and ratings

preference_space = {
					'userA : {
							 'item1' : 'ratingA1, 
							 'item2' : 'ratingA2',
							  ..., 
							  'itemn' : 'ratingAn
							  }, 
					..., 
					'userZ:{
							'item1' : 'ratingZ1,
							 'item2' : 'ratingZ2',
							  ...,
							 'itemn' : 'ratingZn
							}
				    }

Tested Datasets

The project has been tested on these Datasets

1. Jester
2. MovieLens

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Contribution

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Please check out the issue file for list of issues that required helps.

Appreciation

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License

See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (Apache License 2.0).