About this course: In this course, you will learn the fundamental techniques for making personalized recommendations through nearest-neighbor techniques. First you will learn user-user collaborative filtering, an algorithm that identifies other people with similar tastes to a target user and combines their ratings to make recommendations for that user. You will explore and implement variations of the user-user algorithm, and will explore the benefits and drawbacks of the general approach. Then you will learn the widely-practiced item-item collaborative filtering algorithm, which identifies global product associations from user ratings, but uses these product associations to provide personalized recommendations based on a user's own product ratings.
Taught by: Joseph A Konstan, Distinguished McKnight Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Taught by: Michael D. Ekstrand, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, Boise State University
| Basic Info | Course 2 of 5 in the Recommender Systems Specialization |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
- Reading: Course Structure Outline
- Video: Configuring User-User Collaborative Filtering
- Video: Influence Limiting and Attack Resistance; Interview with Paul Resnick
- Video: Trust-Based Recommendation; Interview with Jen Golbeck
- Video: Impact of Bad Ratings; Interview with Dan Cosley
- Reading: Assignment Instructions: User-User CF
- Reading: Introducing User-User CF Programming Assignment
- Video: Programming Assignment - Programming User-User Collaborative Filtering
- Video: Item-Item Algorithm
- Video: Item-Item on Unary Data
- Video: Item-Item Hybrids and Extensions
- Video: Strengths and Weaknesses of Item-Item Collaborative Filtering
- Video: Interview with Brad Miller
- Reading: Item-Based CF Assignment Instructions
- Reading: Introducing Item-Item CF Programming Assignment
- Video: Programming Assignment - Programming Item-Item Collaborative Filtering
- Video: Recommending for Groups: Interview with Anthony Jameson
- Video: Threat Models
- Video: Explanations
- Video: Explanations, Part II: Interview with Nava Tintarev
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The topics I am interested in covered by people who definitely has related expertise. But overall quality of the teaching materials expected to be higher. Forum is also a little bit deserted, although contains some critical hints to pass the assignments (such a hints worth to be included in the assignment descriptions itself). I want to support the course, and it is pity to give it only 4 of 5 stars, but I really expect more quality from the course I paid for.
All in all, it is a comprehensive introduction to collaborative filtering. It allows the reader which paradigms and what tools to use in specific situations. I still have some complains with the excel assignments though.
There is an error in the assignment week 4 : the spreadsheet normalize by user instead of by item
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very nice