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Music Recommender System Using Pyspark
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Music Recommender System Using Pyspark

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Ahmad Varasteh

Instructor: Ahmad Varasteh

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1 hour
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Only available on desktop
Hands-on learning
4.1

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What you'll learn

  • Learn how to setup the google colab for distributed data processing

  • Learn how aggregate a pyspark dataframe to have the data needed for our machine learning model

  • Learn how to use StringIndexer to convert a String (categorical) column into Unique Integral column

  • Learn how to create ALS model for Recommender System

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Guided Project

Learn, practice, and apply job-ready skills with expert guidance

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 hour
Learn at your own pace
No downloads or installation required
Only available on desktop
Hands-on learning
4.1

(24 reviews)

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In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:

  1. Prepare the Google Colab for distributed data processing

  2. Mounting our Google Drive into Google Colab environment

  3. Importing csv file of our Dataset (4 Gb) into pySpark dataframe

  4. Dropping some useless columns and nan Values in our dataframe

  5. Performing an Aggregation to prepare the data

  6. Learn how to use StringIndexer to convert a String (categorical) column into Unique Integral column

  7. Creating ALS model for Recommender System

Recommended experience

Learners should be familiar with Python programming Language, Spark Technology and have a little experience working with google colab environment

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