Lucas and Luna walk through the real-world process of building a recommendation engine, using the open-source MovieLens dataset as their running case. They cover collaborative filtering, matrix factorization, the cold-start problem, and the engineering trade-offs between offline accuracy and online performance. Lucas explains why the Netflix Prize algorithm never made it into production, and Luna challenges the assumption that more data always helps. The episode ends with a practical checklist for any data scientist starting their first recommender system.

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