12.2 - Recommendation Systems and Profiles
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Practice Questions
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What is a recommendation system?
💡 Hint: Think about websites that suggest what to buy based on your previous choices.
Define user profile.
💡 Hint: Remember what information is stored for personalized suggestions.
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What does a recommendation system do?
💡 Hint: Think about how platforms like Amazon or Netflix suggest items.
True or False: An inversion means that two users have the same ranking.
💡 Hint: Recall what an inversion signifies in rankings.
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Design a simple algorithm that uses inversion counting to recommend products to a new user based on a small set of user profiles.
💡 Hint: Consider how to implement the comparison efficiently.
Critique the effectiveness of using inversions as the only metric for recommendations. Are there situations where this method might fail?
💡 Hint: Think about how other factors could impact a user's decision.
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