Book Recommendation System

An application which suggests books that might interest the users based on what they have liked previously.

Tech-Stack

• Machine Learning Libraries
  • pandas
  • sklearn
  • numpy
• Elastic Stack
  • Elasticsearch
  • Logstash
• Frontend
  • HTML
  • CSS
• Backend
  • Flask

Setup

1. Download Python 3.

2. Clone the repository.

3. Run python3 -m pip install venv

4. Now run python3 -m venv recommend

5. Type recommend\Scripts\activate to activate the virtual environment.

6. Run python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

7. Download elasticsearch from here

8. Download logstash from here

9. Navigate to the logstash folder and type bin/logstash -f [path_to_project_directory]/logstash.conf

10. Navigate to the elasticsearch folder and run bin\activate

11. Open another cmd window and run python database.py

12. Download cos_sim.csv from here

13. Run python app.py to start the application.