Reading Plan Recommendations using Python and Apache Spark

My goal in this post is simply to share how we at YouVersion are leveraging machine learning tools to generate product recommendations. This article does not aim to teach fundamentals of machine learning or data science (as if one post even could do that), but it does aim to help others considering building a recommendation engine by seeing how we approached the problem. The tools and libraries mentioned as a part of this should be considered, but they should not be seen as promoted or the only way to build this kind of a system. They are simply what we utilized to accomplish our goal. At YouVersion, our goal is to lead people to engage with Bible scripture.