CHAPTER 1

Getting Started

Welcome to bestPy! In this opening chapter, we will do a minimal setup to arrive at a recommendation quickly, just to wet your appetite.

Preliminaries

We only need this because the examples folder is a subdirectory of the bestPy package.



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import sys
sys.path.append('../..')

Minimal imports



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from bestPy import RecoBasedOn
from bestPy.datastructures import Transactions

Read data

Specify your own data file or play with the examples file



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file = '../tests/data/data50.csv'  # Enter the path to and name of your data file here!
data = Transactions.from_csv(file)

Specify below the ID of the customer you want to make recommendations for



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customer = '7'  # Specify the ID of the customer you want to make recommendations for here!

recommendation = RecoBasedOn(data)
top_five = recommendation.for_one(customer)

for article in top_five:
    print(article)









    



MO717EL52ARFALID-447
AC016EL67BJWALID-932
PI794EL32ENZALID-3067
VI962EL59EFGALID-2840
MO717EL47ARKALID-452

That wasn't too hard, now, was it?



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CHAPTER 1

Getting Started

Preliminaries

Minimal imports

Read data

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