Monday, November 18, 2019 | 3:00pm | Yost 307

Master’s Candidate: Wuyan Xu

Program: Statistics

Advisors: Patricia Williamson and Minwoo Chae

Title: Music Recommender System

Abstract

Methods widely used in recommender systems and some algorithms that can be used in these methods are introduced. The recommender system methods are applied to the field of music. The performance of the different methods are compared to determine the best one for Amazon’s music dataset. The best method is then used to predict the rating scores of the songs for the music dataset.