Online Book Recommendation System
School of Information & Technology-Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
Prof . Malathy E
SANDHYA C1 BRINDHA R2 NISAANTH R3
ABSTRACT
The online recommendation system has become a
trend. Nowadays rather than going out and buying
items for themselves, reason being, online
recommendation provides an easier and quicker way
to buy items and transactions are also quick when it is
done online. Recommended systems are powerful
new technology and it helps users to find items which
they want to buy. A recommendation system is
broadly used to recommend products to the end users
that are most appropriate. Online book selling
Websites now-a-days is competing with each other by
considering many attributes. A recommendation
system is one of the strongest tools to increase profits
and retain buyers. The existing systems lead to
extraction of irrelevant information and lead to lack
of user satisfaction. This Book Recommendation
System (BRS) based on combined features rating
count ,using pearson correlation, Collaborative
Filtering Using k-Nearest Neighbors to produce
efficient and effective recommendation.
Keywords – recommendation, transactions, machine
learning, (BRS), pearson correlation, k-Nearest,
efficient and effective
INRODUCTION
Using a recommendation system, a company can
recommend similar products to their users/customers,
which help the customer to buy/view products
according to his/her needs, and also helps the
company for determining what's best for their
customers. This results in bringing good profits for
the company. In this project we have used different
data sets which contain details about different
authors, date of publishing, user id of the people,
book rating, the age and other details of the user. We
propose a similar recommendation system for a
certain collection of books. The major task we had
was to clean the data being used. We have the data of
a large number of books, users and the rating given to
different books by different users. For all the users,
we have a unique id (User-ID) to identify them. Apart
from that, we have their age, and the rating given by
them to a book(s). Books are identified based on their
ISBN number. Each book has its author's name as
well as the publication that published the book, along
with its title and ISBN number. But, the data is dirty
and has a lot of missing values. In the case of Users,
nearly 27% do not have their age. In case of book
rating, around 62% of the total data has null values
for book ratings. Our first task was to clean the data,
and fill in the appropriate values of all these missing
data. In this project first the user is asked to give their
age as input according to which book that has their
rating greater than that of minimum book rating value
are recommended to the user. The minimum book
rating can either be set by the user or it can be
predicted by our prediction model for that particular
user, using his age as the feature. The customer can
use any of the above functionalities.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
A recommendation system will help users who do not
have enough individual knowledge to peruse through
the different types of options offered by a website. It
will provide the users with information to assist them
to make a decision as to which items to purchase. The
proposed work alters from the existing
recommendation systems since the existing ones only
consider one technique to recommend items to the
users.They do not recommend items using two or
more techniques and are not a Hybrid
Recommendation System.The proposed system uses
combination of Collaborative Filtering and
Association Rule Mining. Collaborative Filtering is
used to predict the ratings of a particular item by
calculating ratings given to similar items or ratings
given by similar users. Association Rule Mining is
used to extract different patterns and
correlations between different items. Thus, the usage
of both these techniques can help to control the data
sparsity problem and cold start problem in
recommendation systems.
OBJECTIVE
We proposed a recommendation system for a certain
collection of books. The major task we had was to
clean the data being used. We have the data of a large
number of books, users and the rating given to
different books by different users. For all the users,
we have a unique id (User-ID) to identify them. Apart
from that, we have their age, and the rating given by
them to a book(s). Books are identified based on their
ISBN number. Each book has its author's name as
well as the publication that published the book, along
with its title and ISBN number. But, the data is dirty
and has a lot of missing values. In the case of Users,
nearly 27% do not have their age. In case of book
rating, around 62% of the total data has null values
for book ratings.
SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
Our first task was to clean the data, and fill in the
appropriate values of all these missing data. In this
project first the user is asked to give their age as input
according to which book that has their rating greater
than that of minimum book rating value are
recommended to the user. The minimum book rating
can either be set by the user or it can be predicted by
our prediction model for that particular user, using his
age as the feature. The customer can use any of the
above functionalities.
LITERATURE SURVEY
[1] Book Recommendation System Based on
Combine Features of Content BasedFiltering,
Collaborative Filtering and Association Rule
Mining.
This paper presents a book recommendation system
based on combined features of content filtering,
collaborative filtering and association rule mining. At
last the goal of the most recommendation system is to
predict the buyer’s interest and recommend the books
accordingly. This book 5 recommendation has
considered many parameters like content of the book
and quality of the book by doing collaborative
filtering of ratings by the other buyers.This
recommender system also uses an associative model
to give stronger recommendations. This system does
not have performance problems since it built the
recommendations offline.
[2] Book Recommendation System using Data
Mining for the University of Hong Kong
Libraries.
This paper describes the theoretical design of a
Library Recommendation System, employing k-
means clustering Data Mining algorithm, with subject
headings of borrowed items as the basis for
generating pertinent recommendations. Sample data
from the University of Hong Kong Libraries (HKUL)
has been used in a Quantitative approach to study the
existing Library Information System, Innopac. Data
warehousing and Data Mining (k-means clustering)
techniques are discussed. The primary benefit of the
system is higher quality of academic research ensuing
from better search results. Personalization improves
individual effectiveness of learners and overall in
better utilizing library resources.
[3] Book recommendation system using opinion
mining technique.
With the changing trends in technologies, and brisk algorithm. This paper introduces two methods for
growth in the Internet, daily life of an individual has improving the efficiency of algorithms, such as
also changed at a very fast pace. The impacts of these filtrating basic item sets, or ignoring the transaction
technologies are so diverse that it has affected almost records that are useless for frequent items generated.
every sphere of life. People start using applications of
the Internet in their daily life; they prefer online REQUIREMENTS
shopping for their needs more and more. For
academicians, researchers and students, purchasing Hardware requirements
the desired book from huge collections of books on
the Internet is very tedious work. In this paper, we  CPU : 2X 64bit 2.8 GHz 8.00 GTs/CPUs
presented a recommendation technique based on  RAM : 32GB
opinion mining to propose top ranked books on
 HDD 256GB
different disciplines of computer science. Based on
the need of the customers and the reviews collected
Software requirements
from them, we have categorized features for the
books. We analyze the features on the basis of several
 Anaconda server
characteristics that we have categorized and reviews
of the users
Operating system
[4] Book recommendation system based on
collaborative filtering and association rule mining  Windows 10
for college students.
Security requirements
Recommendation systems are tools in e-commerce
websites which help users to find the appropriate  Privileged access OR sudo capabilities
products. With the rapid development of internet  Open HTTP(S) port
technologies the number of online book selling  SELinux policy edit privileges (SELinux
websites has increased which enhanced the
does not have to be disabled for Anaconda
competition among them. This paper presents an
online book recommendation system for students Repository operation)
reading textbooks. The main motive of this paper is to  Optional: Ability to make iptables
develop the technique which recommends most modifications and SSL certificate
suitable books to the students according to their price
range and publisher's name. This is based on the
combined features of classification, user based
collaborative filtering and association rule mining. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

[5] Book Recommendation Service by Improved

Association Rule Mining Algorithm

With the extensive application of database systems, a

mass-circulation historical data is accumulated in
university libraries. We applied data mining
technology for discovering useful knowledge in
circulation data analysis. There are some
shortcomings in mining association rules via Apriori
Fig 1.1: Proposed framework

Fig 1.4 Activity Diagram

MODULES
 Login Module
 Sign -Up Module
 Home / Dashboard Module
 Explore Books Module
 Recommend Modules

ALGORITHMS USED

1) Based on Correlation
Pearson correlation is the one most commonly used in
statistics. This measures the strength and direction of
Fig 1.2 UseCase Diagram a linear relationship between two variables We use
Pearsons’R correlation coefficient to measure the
linear correlation between two variables, in our case,
the ratings for two books.

2) Collaborative Filtering Using k-Nearest

Neighbors
KNN is a machine learning algorithm to find clusters
ofsimilar users based on common book ratings, and
make predictions using the average rating of top-k
Fig 1.3 Class Diagram nearest neighbor.
3) Collaborative Filtering Using Matrix IMPLEMENTATION
factorization
Matrix Factorization is simply a mathematical tool
for playing around with matrices. The Matrix
Factorization techniques are usually more effective,
because they allow usersto discoverthe latent (hidden)
features underlying the interactions between users
and items (books). We use singular values
decomposition (SVD)—one of the Matrix
Factorization models for
identifying latentfactors.

METHODOLOGY

RESULT SIMULATION
 previously. To implement the “Online Book
Recommendation System” we have used Pearson
correlation coefficient and algorithms such as
Collaborative filtering using KNN and Collaborative
filtering using matrix factorization

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“Online Book recommendation system” to suggest books
buildingrecommendation-systemsusing-python
to the customers based on the customer purchase history.
In today’s world, Recommendation Systems are one of the
most advanced technologies in demand. In our project, we
suggest books to customers based on the ratings they give
to a book , what type of book genre they purchased
previously and which author’s book they purchased