Question

What are Recommender Systems?

Answer 1

Recommender Systems are a subclass of information filtering systems that are meant to predict the preferences or ratings that a user would give to a product. Recommender systems are widely used in movies, news, research articles, products, social tags, music, etc.

Examples include movie recommenders in IMDB, Netflix & BookMyShow, product recommenders in e-commerce sites like Amazon, eBay & Flipkart, YouTube video recommendations and game recommendations in Xbox.

Answer 2

A recommender system predicts what a user would rate a specific product based on their preferences. It can be split into two different areas:

• Collaborative Filtering

As an example, Last.fm recommends tracks that other users with similar interests play often. This is also commonly seen on Amazon after making a purchase; customers may notice the following message accompanied by product recommendations: "Users who bought this also bought…"

• Content-based Filtering

As an example: Pandora uses the properties of a song to recommend music with similar properties. Here, we look at content, instead of looking at who else is listening to music.

Answer 3

Recommender systems are a subclass of information filtering systems that are meant to predict the preferences or ratings that a user would give to a product.

Answer 4

It is a subclass of information filtering techniques. It helps you to predict the preferences or ratings which users likely to give to a product.