"What about recommendation engines? [EuroPython 2019 - Talk - 2019-07-10 - Singapore [PyData track] [Basel, CH] By Adriana Dorneles How recommendation engines are taking part in our daily routine and how companies as Netflix and Amazon implement it? This talk aims to show the elements that compound a recommendation engine to people who have never been in touch with the matter or want to know a bit more. At the end of this session, you might be able to reproduce your own recommendation system and also know where to find more about it. Talk structure: 1. What is and why use a recommendation engine? 2. Recommendation engine importance 3. Steps of a recommendation 4. Recommendation algorithms 5. Basic Statistics for distance and correlation 6. Example License: This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Please see our speaker release agreement for details: https://ep2019.europython.eu/events/speaker-release-agreement/