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Big Data Then vs. Now: Goodreads’ Recommendation Struggles

  Today, Goodreads has more than 125 million book reviews and millions of user ratings and is the leading site for readers worldwide. But in 2014, a decade ago, its recommendation engine was largely dependent on recommending bestsellers rather than personalized recommendations. Why? Because data processing and machine learning limitations were prevalent then. Now, advancements in big data enable the site to use user ratings, reviews, and reading patterns to help match readers with books they’ll adore. In this article, I’ll be discussing the big data challenge that Goodreads faced roughly 10 years ago — i.e., its recommendation problems — , how they addressed them, and how, with the technology available today, it would be possible to solve them better.

Case Study: Graph Mining in YouTube’s Video Recommendation System

  I’m sure all of us are familiar with the words data and information . They are often used interchangeably, but are they really the same? Not quite. Data refers to raw, unorganized facts — numbers, symbols, or text — that by themselves may not carry meaning. Information, on the other hand, i s what we get after analyzing, processing, and organizing that data in a way that adds value. Data mining techniques help us convert raw data into useful information. Graph mining is a subfield of data mining that is designed to extract useful information and discover patterns from relational or interconnected data. Graph mining specializes in handling graph structured data that has complex relationships between the entities. Now, lets Graph Mining through a case study of YouTube’s Video recommendation

Comparing Classification Models: Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, and SVM for Iris Dataset

  This article is a report on my Machine Learning assignment, which involves implementing various Classification Models — specifically Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, and Support Vector Machine — and comparing the results using popular metrics to find the best model. For this assignment, I used the Iris dataset. It is a famous dataset from 1936, often used for testing machine learning algorithms due to its simplicity. It contains 150 samples of iris flowers with attributes such as sepal length, sepal width, petal length, and petal width, each belonging to one of three species: Setosa, Versicolor, and Virginica. You can find this dataset on Kaggle.

IPv4: Advantages, Disadvantages and the path to IPv6

  IPv4 stands for Internet Protocol version 4, and it’s the set of rules that govern internet communication. It’s the first version of the Internet Protocol as a standalone specification. IPv4 was deployed in 1981 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Before that, earlier versions of IP were combined specifications like TCP/IPv3. Today, 43 years later, despite the emergence of its successor, IPv6, it is still widely used all over the world. This article will discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of IPv4. First, let us look at some of the Advantages of IPv4: Widespread Adoption: As discussed above, IPv4 is extremely popular. Since its introduction in the 1980s, IPv4 has become the standard for internet communication. It essentially runs the internet. This means that almost all networking equipment, including routers, switches, and devices, are made to support IPv4 naturally, ensuring seamless interoperability. The extensive use of IPv4 also means that there is a ...

AI and it’s Contribution to the Medical World

  Artificial Intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create systems that are capable of performing tasks like problem-solving, learning, reasoning, perception and understanding that generally require human intelligence. In simpler words, Artificial Intelligence aims to duplicate human intelligence. AI can perform any task with a higher level of efficiency and speed than humans. AI can also process large amount of data quickly and precisely with higher accuracy and consistency. Does this mean that AI was created to replace human intelligence? The answer is no. While AI can process and analyse data, it lacks a true understanding of the meaning behind the data. AI also lacks awareness, intuition, empathy and the ability to make ethical and moral judgements. And while AI can be creative, it’s brand of creativity is based on existing patterns and data. On the other hand, the human brand of creativity is influenced by emotions, intuitions and best of all has originality...

Predictive Analytics in Plant Disease Detection: A Case Study

  Firstly, what is predictive analysis? In technical terms, Predictive analysis is the use of statistics and modeling techniques to determine future performance based on current and historical data. But, I’m sure we are all familiar with weather prediction which is one of the most common applications of predictive analysis. How do the weather forecasters predict climate every day? By combining real-time observational data with advanced computer models to simulate atmospheric conditions and make predictions based on numerical weather prediction techniques. That is not all. Predictive analytics have wide range of applications. One of which is plant disease detection. That is what this case study is about.

Predictive Analytics in Improving customer experience in e-tourism: A Case Study

  Firstly, what is predictive analysis? In technical terms, Predictive analysis is the use of statistics and modeling techniques to determine future performance based on current and historical data. But, I’m sure we are all familiar with weather prediction which is one of the most common applications of predictive analysis. How do the weather forecasters predict climate every day? By combining real-time observational data with advanced computer models to simulate atmospheric conditions and make predictions based on numerical weather prediction techniques. That is not all. Predictive analytics have wide range of applications. One which is e-tourism . That is what this case study is about. Introduction: Since the emergence of the Internet, travel planning has always been one of the major reasons that people use the Internet. E-tourism is all about the introduction of digitization into the tourism industry. This manifests itself in many different ways like finding the perfect holiday ...