Restaurant Recommendation System using Machine Learning
In this article we are going to discuss about the Restaurant Recommendation System. it is an application that recommends similar restaurants to a customer according to the customer’s taste. We will learn how to build a restaurant recommendation system. This article will take you through how to build a restaurant recommendation system using Machine Learning.
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Now we will import Python libraries and the dataset we need for this task and check the top 5 rows of our dataset:
We will be selecting two columns from the dataset which we need for the rest of the task (Name, Type):
Now, we will check whether we have null values in our dataset or not.
The type of restaurant is a valuable feature in the data to build a recommendation system. The type column here represents the category of restaurants. For example, if a customer likes vegetarian-friendly restaurants, he will only look at the recommendations if they are vegetarian friendly too. So, I will use the Type column as the feature to recommend similar restaurants to the customer:
Now I will set the name of the restaurant as an index so that we can find similar restaurants by giving the name of the restaurant as an input:
Now we will write a function to recommend similar restaurants:
Conclusion
So, this is how to build a restaurant recommender system using the machine learning. I hope you liked this article on building a restaurant recommender system using Machine Learning.