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thenextbestbook

DATA 515A Project - Spring 2019

Finding new books to read isn’t always easy. Looking at the size of libraries and some bookstores, it’s hardly surprising that there’s a lot of bad stuff circulating as well. Until recently, we limited ourselves to word of mouth and the tedious business of reading the back of every book on the shelves.

This project aims to build a recommendation engine to help you find your next best book.

Links to the dataset

Amazon Dataset: http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/index.html

Goodreads Dataset: https://sites.google.com/eng.ucsd.edu/ucsdbookgraph/home

Setup

thenextbestbook has five components that need to be setup prior to launching the project

1. Extra Transform Load
3. Recommendation Engine
4. Flask Web App
5. UI