The Fifth Elephant 2016

The growth of data at exponential rates isn’t news today. Social media and e-commerce platforms are major contibuting factors to this story. With billions of users online, the potential for marketing and reach is immense. Recommender engines are utilized across domains to assist users make the right choices by understanding their behaviour and tastes.

This talk introduces the audience to the world of predictive analytics using recommender engines as an example. We outline the process of building a recommender engine all the while touching upon under-the-hood details of it.

Outline

The talk will focus mainly on the following topics:

1. Intro to Predictive Analytics
2. Different approaches for building recommender engines like matrix factorization, collaborative filtering, etc.
3. Issues with Recommender Engines.

The slides deck is WIP

Speaker bio

Developer at Intel

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/raghavbali/recommender-engines-a-peak-into-predictive-analytics