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I'm quite new to recommender systems or recommendation engines but I have a machine learning background. What books would you suggest I should read to get involved into this topic? |
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Recommender Systems: An Introduction by Dietmar Jannach, Markus Zanker, Alexander Felfernig, and Gerhard Friedrich seems appropriate. They also have a more comprehensive guide. |
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I've been reading the Recommender Systems Handbook lately, because I wanted to take part in the Million Song Dataset challenge and I knew next to nothing about this topic. It's been very helpful, although almost every chapter has different authors, and it shows. It kind of feels like a reworked collection of papers at times, but it's pretty comprehensive as far as I can tell (I've only read the chapters that I thought were relevant for me). |
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I wrote a 195-page monograph on the Netflix Prize and recommender systems: |