Indigo Books and Friends Recommendation
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In this report we take first and significant steps towards augmenting Indigo’s online presence by automatically personalized features that can be expected to help online sales: book as well as online community friends recommendations. We use and modify well-known collaborative filtering techniques to utilize a single machine learning method for both tasks. Our techniques are shown to be effective both quantitatively and by data visualization, and additionally yield valuable insights into how a refined data acquisition strategy may yield even more valuable results for Indigo.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009