I have successfully completed week one of the CREU blog. During this time I have met the other 3 members of my team and our two advisers. We were tasked with reading a couple papers about recommender systems.
- Association Rules- Support and Confidence.
- Data Mining: Apriori Algorithm
- Mining Association Rules
Once we were done reading those papers we were given our first real assignment:
- Use association rules to develop an ordered list of deals as a recommendation for Alice.
One big struggle of mine is procrastination, and so its 10pm the night before the meeting with the CREU team to discuss our answers and I am unsure on how to finish the problem. I think I have figured the first 3/4th of the problem but am stuck on the last 1/4th. This is a small problem as I have had a week to look over it and figure it out. Tomorrow before our team meeting I plan on asking the adviser to look over my work and give me a small nudge in the right direction.
Moving onward I plan on:
- Looking at the research more than the day before it is due.
- Read more papers and learn more about recommender systems.
- Talk more with the group members and bounce ideas off of one another.
All in all I would say it was a successful first week!
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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