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LensKit Documentation

If you're just getting started with LensKit, start with the following:

• Getting Started to use LensKit in a project
• Experiment Quickstart to run recommender experiments with LensKit

Then you will probably want to read the rest of our documentation:

• LensKit Basics — how to use LensKit and work with its interfaces and data structures. {% if false %}
• LensKit Algorithms — more detailed discussions of the algorithms LensKit provides.
• The LensKit Evaluator — evaluating recommendation quality.
• Command Line Tools — evaluating recommendation quality. {% endif %}
• Java API documentation
• The LensKit wiki has documentation on developing LensKit

Additionally, Chapter 3 of Michael Ekstrand's dissertation describes the design of LensKit's, along with the motivations behind many of the design decisions. It is recommended reading for people wanting to work on the LensKit code.