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Building a Recommendation
System with R
Learn the art of building robust and powerful
recommendation engines using R
Suresh K. Gorakala
Michele Usuelli
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Building a Recommendation System with R
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Authors
Suresh K. Gorakala
Michele Usuelli
Proofreader
Reviewers
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Commissioning Editor
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Acquisition Editor
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Content Development Editor
Kirti Patil
Technical Editor
Vijin Boricha
Copy Editors
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Indexer
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Graphics
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Cover Work
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Safis Editing
Project Coordinator
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About the Authors
Suresh K. Gorakala
is a blogger, data analyst, and consultant on data mining,
big data analytics, and visualization tools. Since 2013, he has been writing and
maintaining a blog on data science at
http://www.dataperspective.info/
.
Suresh holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from SRKR Engineering
College, which is affiliated with Andhra University, India.
He loves generating ideas, building data products, teaching, photography, and
travelling. Suresh can be reached at
sureshkumargorakala@gmail.com
.You can
also follow him on Twitter at
@sureshgorakala
.
With great pleasure, I sincerely thank everyone who has supported
me all along. I would like to thank my dad, my loving wife, and
sister, who have supported me in all respects and without whom
this book would not have been completed.
I am also grateful to my friends Rajesh, Hari, and Girish, who
constantly support me and have stood by me in times of difficulty.
I would like to extend a special thanks to Usha Iyer and Kirti Patil,
who supported me in completing all my tasks. I would like to
specially mention Michele Usuelli, without whom this book would
be incomplete.
Michele Usuelli
is a data scientist, writer, and R enthusiast specialized in the
fields of big data and machine learning. He currently works for Revolution Analytics,
the leading R-based company that got acquired by Microsoft in April 2015. Michele
graduated in mathematical engineering and has worked with a big data start-up and
a big publishing company in the past. He is also the author of
R Machine Learning
Essentials, Packt Publishing.
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