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Building Recommendation System Using F# – Part 2
In the first part, we implemented our first F# function towards building a recommendation system, which could tell us relative closeness of two users based on their ratings given to the various music bands. During implementation, I highlighted some of the core F# programming concepts like pattern matching, options, modules etc.. In this part, we are going to concentrate on following three things:
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Building Recommendation System Using F# - Part 1
In this blog post, using F# language, we will try to build a simple recommendation system. The true intent of this post is to learn F# language by implementing a recommendation system. If you are truly interested in learning what it takes to build a true recommendation system, then I would encourage you to read the following text : A Programmers Guide to data mining. I too have used this text as a source of reference for the content of this post. In this post, I am going to port the original python based code to F# and while doing that I will try to highlight various functional programming concepts.