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Discover, Recommend, Engage: The Art & Science of Recommender Systems.
A Special type of Machine Algorithm that plays a key role in most of the online platforms and keeps people stuck their heads in scrolling through the platform’s products and etc…
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Yes! We are gonna explore the topic of “Recommender Systems”.
Before we jump into the topic, what “Recommender Systems” actually is? Let us look into some of the examples from platforms like “Amazon, Netflix & YouTube” to get motivated about this concept.
YouTube:
Here is a screenshot from YouTube and the video and this video is regarding “PCA (Principal Component Analysis)”, which is a dimensionality reduction technique. [Randomly Searched video]

Here, when we started watching a video regarding a specific topic, we got recommendations related to the video that is being watched by us.
We can see that 1st, 2nd, 4th & 5th recommendations are regarding “PCA” and the other two are related to and similar to “PCA”. The videos that are being shown by YouTube are either related or similar to the video that we are…