Big Data Analytics for Personalized Recommendation Systems

Nowadays, large volumes of valuable data of different degrees of veracity can be easily generated or collected at a high velocity from a wide variety of data sources. Embedded in these big data are implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information and knowledge. Hence, big data analytics are in demand as they assist users to analyze the big data and discover new knowledge. This in turn helps users gain insight into big data, obtain useful information, and make personalized recommendation. In this paper, we focus on big data analytics on music-i.e., music analysis-for personalized music recommendation systems. In particular, we present a system that exploits the frequent tags attached to the tracks in an user's listening history and a hidden Markov model (HMM) for generating predictions and thus making personalized recommendation. Knowledge learned from this personalized music recommendation can be transferred to building other personalized recommendation systems.