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Tutorials on recommendation engines

TL asked in Gems / Libraries

Hi Chris,

I searched for videos on recommendation itens but couldn't find any.

We run a real estate website and would love to provide similarities recommendations (like "users that viewed this property also liked ...". There seems to be a handful of gems to acomplish this, but it's not trivial and it would be great to have a tutorial with your expertise. Any plans for a video like this?

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Hey TL,

That's definitely a great suggestion and you're right, those recommendations engines aren't trivial.

I'd probably check out this gem first: https://github.com/davidcelis/recommendable

And if that didn't work out, I'd try building my own implementation. It seems most of these gems aren't too well maintained.

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Hey TL,

You may want to check this page https://www.igvita.com/2007/01/15/svd-recommendation-system-in-ruby/
it may be dated(published 2007). He's an engineer at google. He gives a example recommonding tv episodes.

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Thanks a lot guys!

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