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Problem Statement -

Build your own recommendation system for products on an e-commerce website like Amazon.com.

Online E-commerce websites like Amazon, Filpkart uses different recommendation models to
provide different suggestions to different users.
Amazon currently uses item-to-item collaborative filtering, which scales to massive data sets and
produces high-quality recommendations in real time. This type of filtering matches each of the user's
purchased and rated items to similar items, then combines those similar items into a recommendation
list for the user.

In this project we are going to build recommendation model for the electronics products of Amazon.

The dataset here is taken from the below website.

Source - Amazon Reviews data (http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/) The repository has


several datasets. For this case study, we are using the Electronics dataset.

Dataset columns - first three columns are userId, productId, and ratings and the fourth column is
timestamp. You can discard the timestamp column as in this case you may not need to use it.

Please do the analysis based on steps( 1 to 8) as given below -

Steps -

1. Read and explore the given dataset. ( Rename column/add headers, plot histograms,
find data characteristics)
2. Take a subset of the dataset to make it less sparse/ denser. ( For example, keep the
users only who has given 50 or more number of ratings )
3. Split the data randomly into train and test dataset. ( For example, split it in 70/30 ratio)
4. Build Popularity Recommender model.
5. Build Collaborative Filtering model.
6. Evaluate both the models. ( Once the model is trained on the training data, it can be
used to compute the error (RMSE) on predictions made on the test data.)
7. Get top - K ( K = 5) recommendations. Since our goal is to recommend new products to
each user based on his/her habits, we will recommend 5 new products.
8. Summarise your insights.

Hints -

Dataset Link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ClBptsK3V5KgKXtK2GSRzFNAW7GnTPDW/view?


usp=sharing
Please Note -
● If you are facing any memory issue while working on this project, create a small subset of
data and work on it.
● If you are stuck at model evaluation part of this project.
Please refer to below links -
1. https://surprise.readthedocs.io/en/stable/accuracy.html
2. http://surpriselib.com/ - Getting started, example

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