Gorakala - Building recommendation engines: understand your data and user preferences to make intelligent, accurate, and profitable decisions

Suresh Kumar Gorakala is a Data scientist focused on Artificial Intelligence. He has professional experience close to 10 years, having worked with various global clients across multiple domains and helped them in solving their business problems using Advanced Big Data Analytics. He has extensively worked on Recommendation Engines, Natural language Processing, Advanced Machine Learning, Graph Databases.He previously co-authored Building a Recommendation System with R for Packt Publishing.He is passionate traveler and is photographer by hobby.

I would like to thank my wife for putting up with my late-night writing sessions and all my family members for supporting me over the months. I also give deep thanks and gratitude to Barathi Ganesh, Raj Deepthi, Harsh and my colleagues who without their support this book quite possibly would not have happened.I would also like to thank all the mentors that Ive had over the years. Without learning from these teachers, there is not a chance I could be doing what I do today, and it is because of them and others that I may not have listed here that I feel compelled to pass my knowledge on to those willing to learn. I would also like to thank all the reviewers and project managers of the book to make it a reality.

Vikram Dhillon is a software developer, a bioinformatics researcher, and a software coach at the Blackstone LaunchPad in the University of Central Florida. He has been working on his own startup involving healthcare data security of late. He lives in Orlando and regularly attends development meetups and hackathons. He enjoys spending his spare time reading about new technologies, such as the Blockchain and developing tutorials for machine learning in game design. He has been involved in open-source projects for over five years and writes about technology and startups at opsbug.com

Vimal Romeo is a data science at Ernst and Young, Rome. He holds a masters degree in Big Data Analytics from Luiss Business School, Rome. He also holds an MBA degree from XIME ,India and a bachelors degree in computer science and engineering from CUSAT, India. He is an author at MilanoR which is a blog related to the R language.

I would like to thank my mom Mrs Bernadit and my brother - Vibin for their continuous support. I would also like to thank my friends Matteo Amadei, Antonella Di Luca, Asish Mathew and Eleonora Polidoro who supported me during this process. A special thanks to Nidhi Joshi from Packt Publishing for keeping me motivated during the process.

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