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Building a Recommendation Engine with Redis

When I was asked which topic I would like to present at this year's OOP conference, I was out of the box thinking about 'Something with Machine Learning' involved. It was years ago at the university when I had a secondary focus on 'Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks' and I think that's fair to say that the topic was not as 'hot' as it is today. The algorithms were the same as today but the frameworks were not that commodity and calculations happened either on paper, with MatLab or with some very specialized software for neural network training. However, the actual discipline stayed fascinating and even if I would not call myself a Data Scientist (I sticked more with my primary focus which was Database Implementation Techniques - so I am more a database guy :-) ) I am really amazed of the adoption and number of arising frameworks in the field of Machine Learning and Artifical Intelligence. Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence is quite a