How to build a recommendation engine using Apache's Prediction IO Machine Learning Server

This post will guide you through installing Apache Prediction IO machine learning server. We'll use one of its templates called Recommendation to build a working recommendation engine. The finished product will be able to recommend customized products depending upon a given user's purchasing behavior. You've got bunch of data and you need to predict something accurately so you can help your business grow its sales, grow customers, grow profits, grow conversion, or whatever the business need is. Recommendation systems are probably the first step everyone takes toward applying data science and machine learning.