From the course: Building Recommender Systems with Machine Learning and AI

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Clickstream recommendations with RNNs

Clickstream recommendations with RNNs

back to our deep learning introduction, recurrent neural networks, or rnn's, are good at finding patterns in sequences of data and predicting what comes next. Well some recommendation problems can be thought of, in those terms. We call them session-based recommendations. We don't know who you are so we don't know what your past history is on the site or what your past interests are. We can keep track of your session, though, as you browse the site using the same browser window. Perhaps you've decided to learn how to speak klingon because, for some reason, you've decided that would be a useful life skill. In fact, it's not. But lets just make it interesting. Perhaps the first book you look at is how to speak Klingon. So that's the first thing in your click stream. So at this point, literally the only thing our recommender system knows about you, is that you looked at the book, how to speak Klingon. But at least that's something. Maybe you didn't like the reviews on this book, or…

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