A recommendation system for BookCrossing.com

Project Details

Term: 

2010

Students: 

Anurag Sharma, Nitesh Batra, Sandip Chaudhary, Siddharth Chatterji, Siddharth Singh

University: 

ISB

Presentation: 

Report: 

BookCrossing is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise." The term is derived from bookcrossing.com, a free online book club which began in order to encourage the practice, aiming to "make the whole world a library."

BookCrossing.com has a great deal of data on book ratings across genres and geographies and basic demographic / geographic information (location and age). At present it has no recommendation systems in place (other than a naïve rule based on the number of users reviewing a particular book and average rating).

The project aim is to use BookCrossing data to suggest a recommendation system for new and existing members of the site.

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