AURA, Adaptive User Recommendation Algorithm, is a recommendation engine. The algorithms used are the Pearson and FUNK SVD.
Albert Lua, Sai Coumar, Jason Leong, Daniel Trager
First, the Execution Policy for PowerShell needs to be changed. The following command needs to be run in PowerShell (admin).
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
Verification can be done with the following, ensure "RemoteSigned" is returned.
Get-ExecutionPolicy
Now the virtual environment needs to be setup (we will be using "pinnacle" as the name).
python -m venv pinnacle
Virtual environment needs to be activated. For PowerShell, remove the .bat extension.
pinnacle\Scripts\activate.bat
Verify (pinnacle) is present in the beginning of the line for terminal. Now in the virtual environment, install the requirements via pip.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Now we can run the Flask application.
python app.py
Application should now be running and accessible via localhost. Default is 127.0.0.1:5000