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Collective Intelligence

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1741472.Programming_Collective_Intelligence

"Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications" by Toby Segaran

This repo contains exercises that I found interesting to explore from the book. I the book structure was kept.

Chapter 2 - Recomendation Systems

  • Find best links for people from a social bookmarking site
  • Movie recommendation system from the MovieLens dataset.

Chapter 3 - Clustering

  • Find groups on a set of popular web blogs
  • Find people's desires from a social networking web site.

Chapter 4 - Searching and Planning

  • Development of a Search engine including the crawler, indexer, and query engine.
  • PageRank algorithm for scoring pages based on inbound links
  • Create a neural network that learns which keywords are associated with different results.

Chapter 5 - Optimization

  • Find best flights for a group of people traveling to the same location
  • Find the best way of matching students to dorms

Chapter 6 - Bayesian Filtering

  • Spam filters for automatically classifying documents based on the type of words and other features

Chapter 7 - Decision Trees

  • Predict whether or not a user is likely to become a premium subscriber.

Chapter 8 - KNN Clustering

  • Classifications using k-nearest neighbors techniques.
  • System for predicting eventual auction prices for items based on a set of properties.

Chapter 9 - SVM

  • Match people in online dating sites or when searching for professional contacts.

Chapter 10 - NNM Factorization

  • Find the independent features in a dataset.

Chapter 11 - Genetic Programing

  • Builds algorithms using evolutionary ideas to solve a particular problem.

Setup

To run all available scripts locally you must create a new environment and install and required packages:

$ mkvirtualenv collective-intelligence
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

If you don't have mkvirtualenv installed, you can find it here: Install mkvirtualenv

License

All code here is under the MIT license.

Disclaimer

All code in this repo is for educational purpuses only. Use this programs at your own risk.