Building Recommender Systems with Machine Learning and AI Course

Help people discover new products and content with deep learning, neural networks, and machine learning recommendations.

What you’ll learn

Building Recommender Systems with Machine Learning and AI Course

Understand and apply user-based and item-based collaborative filtering to recommend items to users
Create recommendations using deep learning at massive scale
Build recommender systems with neural networks and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM’s)
Make session-based recommendations with recurrent neural networks and Gated Recurrent Units (GRU)
Build a framework for testing and evaluating recommendation algorithms with Python
Apply the right measurements of a recommender system’s success
Build recommender systems with matrix factorization methods such as SVD and SVD++
Apply real-world learnings from Netflix and YouTube to your own recommendation projects
Combine many recommendation algorithms together in hybrid and ensemble approaches
Use Apache Spark to compute recommendations at large scale on a cluster
Use K-Nearest-Neighbors to recommend items to users
Solve the “cold start” problem with content-based recommendations
Understand solutions to common issues with large-scale recommender systems

Requirements

A Windows, Mac, or Linux PC with at least 3GB of free disk space.
Some experience with a programming or scripting language (preferably Python)
Some computer science background, and an ability to understand new algorithms.

Description

Learn how to build recommender systems from one of Amazon’s pioneers in the field. Frank Kane spent over nine years at Amazon, where he managed and led the development of many of Amazon’s personalized product recommendation technologies.

You’ve seen automated recommendations everywhere – on Netflix’s home page, on YouTube, and on Amazon as these machine learning algorithms learn about your unique interests, and show the best products or content for you as an individual. These technologies have become central to the largest, most prestigious tech employers out there, and by understanding how they work, you’ll become very valuable to them.

Building a recommendation engine
Evaluating recommender systems
Content-based filtering using item attributes
Neighborhood-based collaborative filtering with user-based, item-based, and KNN CF
Model-based methods including matrix factorization and SVD
Applying deep learning, AI, and artificial neural networks to recommendations
Session-based recommendations with recursive neural networks
Scaling to massive data sets with Apache Spark machine learning, Amazon DSSTNE deep learning, and AWS SageMaker with factorization machines
Real-world challenges and solutions with recommender systems
Case studies from YouTube and Netflix
Building hybrid, ensemble recommenders

This comprehensive course takes you all the way from the early days of collaborative filtering, to bleeding-edge applications of deep neural networks and modern machine learning techniques for recommending the best items to every individual user.

The coding exercises in this course use the Python programming language. We include an intro to Python if you’re new to it, but you’ll need some prior programming experience in order to use this course successfully. We also include a short introduction to deep learning if you are new to the field of artificial intelligence, but you’ll need to be able to understand new computer algorithms.

High-quality, hand-edited English closed captions are included to help you follow along.

I hope to see you in the course soon!

Who this course is for:

Software developers interested in applying machine learning and deep learning to product or content recommendations
Engineers working at, or interested in working at large e-commerce or web companies
Computer Scientists interested in the latest recommender system theory and research
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