Idea - genre vectors for each user

[dorukkilitcioglu]

We believe that the genre of a recommended book is very important to whether or not a user will like a book. I want to quantify this idea. Here are some questions that can point us in that direction:

• For each user, what is the genre distribution of their books? Are there certain genres they like more?
• What are the genres of the recommended books for said users? Do they align with user genres?
• How does using pure collab filtering differ from hybrid model when it comes to the genre distribution?
• Does recommending books that are more aligned with the genres the user prefers lead to "better" recommendations?

This paper comes into mind: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08379