A talk given for the Hadoop User Group Ireland, 6th October 2015
The slides are available in "talk.pdf", with the recommender example reference in the talk in "recsys.py"
Data in this example comes from MovieLens
Spark's ALS documentation Bugra's excellent ALS blog post, with example implementation Summer School intro to recommenders by former Netflix head of recsys #bbuzz 2015: Till Rohrmann – Computing recommendations at extreme scale with Apache Flink