Summary

Among the different techniques for recommendation, collaborative filtering is the easiest to implement. In addition, content-based filtering algorithms depend on the context, and it's still possible to build them in R.

This chapter showed you different approaches to recommendation by focusing on collaborative filtering. The next chapter will show you how to test and evaluate the recommendation techniques.

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