Book Rental Recommendation.
Budget: ₹1,500 – ₹12,500 INR
DESCRIPTION
Book Rent is the largest online and offline book rental chain in India. They provide books of various genres, such as thrillers, mysteries, romances, and science fiction. The company charges a fixed rental fee for a book per month. Lately, the company has been losing its user base. The main reason for this is that users are not able to choose the right books for themselves. The company wants to solve this problem and increase its revenue and profit.
Project Objective:
You, as an ML expert, should focus on improving the user experience by personalizing it to the user's needs. You have to model a recommendation engine so that users get recommendations for books based on the behavior of similar users. This will ensure that users are renting the books based on their tastes and traits.
Note: You have to perform user-based collaborative filtering and item-based collaborative filtering.
Dataset description:
BX-Users: It contains the information of users.
user_id - These have been anonymized and mapped to integers
Location - Demographic data is provided
Age - Demographic data is provided
If available, otherwise, these fields contain NULL-values.
BX-Books:
isbn - Books are identified by their respective ISBNs. Invalid ISBNs have already been removed from the dataset.
book_title
book_author
year_of_publication
publisher
BX-Book-Ratings: Contains the book rating information.
user_id
isbn
rating - Ratings (`Book-Rating`) are either explicit, expressed on a scale from 1–10 (higher values denoting higher appreciation), or implicit, expressed by 0.
Note: Download the “BX-Book-Ratings.csv”, “BX-Books.csv”, “BX-Users.csv”, and “Recommend.csv” using the link given in the Book Rental Recommendation project problem statement.
Following operations should be performed:
Read the books dataset and explore it
Clean up NaN values
Read the data where ratings are given by users
Take a quick look at the number of unique users and books
Convert ISBN variables to numeric numbers in the correct order
Convert the user_id variable to numeric numbers in the correct order
Convert both user_id and ISBN to the ordered list, i.e., from 0...n-1
Re-index the columns to build a matrix
Split your data into two sets (training and testing)
Make predictions based on user and item variables
Use RMSE to evaluate the predictions
Book Rent is the largest online and offline book rental chain in India. They provide books of various genres, such as thrillers, mysteries, romances, and science fiction. The company charges a fixed rental fee for a book per month. Lately, the company has been losing its user base. The main reason for this is that users are not able to choose the right books for themselves. The company wants to solve this problem and increase its revenue and profit.
Project Objective:
You, as an ML expert, should focus on improving the user experience by personalizing it to the user's needs. You have to model a recommendation engine so that users get recommendations for books based on the behavior of similar users. This will ensure that users are renting the books based on their tastes and traits.
Note: You have to perform user-based collaborative filtering and item-based collaborative filtering.
Dataset description:
BX-Users: It contains the information of users.
user_id - These have been anonymized and mapped to integers
Location - Demographic data is provided
Age - Demographic data is provided
If available, otherwise, these fields contain NULL-values.
BX-Books:
isbn - Books are identified by their respective ISBNs. Invalid ISBNs have already been removed from the dataset.
book_title
book_author
year_of_publication
publisher
BX-Book-Ratings: Contains the book rating information.
user_id
isbn
rating - Ratings (`Book-Rating`) are either explicit, expressed on a scale from 1–10 (higher values denoting higher appreciation), or implicit, expressed by 0.
Note: Download the “BX-Book-Ratings.csv”, “BX-Books.csv”, “BX-Users.csv”, and “Recommend.csv” using the link given in the Book Rental Recommendation project problem statement.
Following operations should be performed:
Read the books dataset and explore it
Clean up NaN values
Read the data where ratings are given by users
Take a quick look at the number of unique users and books
Convert ISBN variables to numeric numbers in the correct order
Convert the user_id variable to numeric numbers in the correct order
Convert both user_id and ISBN to the ordered list, i.e., from 0...n-1
Re-index the columns to build a matrix
Split your data into two sets (training and testing)
Make predictions based on user and item variables
Use RMSE to evaluate the predictions