Building a Board Game Recommendation System from the Ground Up
Details
Want to build your own recommendation system? Join us in April to learn how to build a recommendation system from the ground up and maybe learn about a new board game or two!
Agenda
6:00 PM -- Greetings, networking, food, and drink
6:30 PM -- Building a Board Game Recommendation System from the Ground Up -- Patrick Beben
7:30 PM -- Closings and Swag!
Location
Clarity
6940 Columbia Gateway Dr. Suite 110
Columbia, MD 21046
Location
Food and drink will be provided!
Talk
Building a Board Game Recommendation System from the Ground Up
In this talk, we will build a content-based recommendation system from the ground up. We’ll be taking our data from the top ten thousand ranked games on the BoardGameGeek database. From this data, we’ll build our system around the k-nearest neighbors algorithm using two metrics. One will make use of user-made categories while the other will employ a TF-IDF weighting scheme on board game descriptions.
Speaker
Patrick Beben is currently a Senior Consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. Previous to that, he spent nine years as a mathematics teacher at the high school and college levels. He grew up in southeast Louisiana and has a Master's in Mathematics from Texas A&M. He spends entirely too much time chasing around two kids to be able to play the latest, greatest board games.
Building a Board Game Recommendation System from the Ground Up