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Table 8 Application focused and dataset description in different recommender systems

From: A systematic review and research perspective on recommender systems

References

Application

Dataset description

Castellano et al. [1]

Usage-based Web recommender system

Datasets consist of real-world data gathered from the log-files of a commonly visited website of the successful Japanese film: Dragon Ball

Dataset size: 434 input–output samples

Crespo et al. [2]

Intelligent electronic books

Lin et al. [3]

Automatic vending machines

Data from nine vending machines were collected from two locations

Wang and Wu [4]

Ubiquitous-learning system

Botanical database

Dataset size: 80 knowledge units

García-Crespo et al. [5]

Hotels

Data collected from 10 hotels in Mallorca (Spain)

Dong et al. [6]

Business and software environment

Service metadata

Dataset size: 1000

Li et al. [7]

Knowledge management systems for the aircraft industry

Lorenzi et al. [8]

Tourism domain

A private dataset was collected from a travel agency

Dataset size: 35 test cases

Huang et al. [9]

Context-aware recommender system for movie recommendation

Set of real-world movie rating data

Dataset size:1048 ratings from 116 users

Chen et al. [10]

Anti-diabetic drugs selection

Database collected from a professional community of America based physicians

Dataset size: 20 patients

Mohanraj et al. [11]

Online recommender system

Data sourced from an intranet website

Hsu et al. [12]

Recommendations for auxiliary material

Facebook data

Dataset size: 10 datasets each having 200 to 2000 Facebook posts

Gemmell et al. [13]

Resource recommender for social annotation systems

Data sourced from:

Bibsonomy (size: 13,909 annotations), Citeulike (size: 105,873 annotations), movielens (size: 35,366 annotations), Delicious (size: 720,788 annotations), Amazon (size: 498,217 annotations) and lastfm (size: 172,177 annotations)

Choi et al. [14]

Online-product recommender system

Data was collected from a major online shopping mall in Korea

Dataset size: 16,486 transactions

Garibaldi et al. [15]

Breast cancer treatment recommendation

Data was collected from a hospital in the United Kingdom

Dataset size: 1310 patients

Salehi and Kmalabadi [16]

E-learning material recommender system

Open-source data gathered from a course management system

Dataset size: 16,345 records

Aher and Lobo [17]

E-learning recommender system

Open-source data gathered from a course management system

Kardan and Ebrahimi [18]

A content recommender system for asynchronous discussion groups

MetaFilter dataset (size: 229,401 threads) and Yahoo Answers dataset (size: 7,941,404 threads)

Chang et al. [19]

A cloud-based intelligent TV program

User profile database

Dataset size: 300,000 user profiles

Lucas et al. [20]

Tourism recommender system

Data was collected from a personalized tourist-aiding system

Dataset size: 241

Niu et al. [21]

Video recommender system

Metadata of videos

Dataset size: 362 videos

Liu et al. [22]

Recommender system for self-driven tourists

Data collected from Google Maps

Bakshi et al. [23]

E-commerce recommender system

MovieLens dataset of 100,000 ratings provided by 943 users on 1682 movies

Kim and Shim [24]

Twitter

Data fetched from Twitter

Dataset size: 12,098,339 tweet messages

Wang et al. [25]

Movie recommender system

MovieLens dataset of 100,000 ratings by 943 users on 1682 movies

Kolomvatsos et al. [26]

Music and book recommender system

An open-source song dataset

Dataset size: 1167 songs

Gottschlich et al. [27]

Stock investment recommender system

Data were collected from the 30 largest public companies in Germany

Torshizi et al. [28]

Benign prostatic hyperplasia

44 patients’ data were collected from a Medical University

Zahálka et al. [29]

Venue recommender

New York dataset (size: 7,246 venues and 1,072,181 items), and Amsterdam dataset (size: 693 venues and 55,990 items)

Sankar et al. [30]

Stock recommender system

Data were collected from 17 mutual funds

Chen et al. [31]

Movie recommender system

Data was collected from the MovieLens dataset of 100,000 ratings collected from 943 users on 1682 movies and eachmovie dataset with 2,811,983 ratings from 61,265 users on 1623 movies

Wu et al. [32]

Item recommender system

Delicious (Dataset size: 69,223 items),

Lastfm (Dataset size: 12,523 items) and

CiteULike (Dataset size: 7,188 items)

Yeh and Cheng [33]

Tourist management

Tourist related data was collected from 457 users

Liao et al. [34]

e-commerce recommender system

Data was collected from many online shopping platforms

Li et al. [35]

Movie recommender system

Netflix Prize dataset (size: 100,480,507 ratings from 480,189 customers on 17,770 movies)

Wu et al. [36]

Social media recommender system

Delicious (Dataset size: 45,419 items) and

Lastfm (Dataset size: 12,523 items)

Adeniyi et al. [37]

Web usage-based recommender system

Web server data was collected from 5285 web pages

Rawat and Kankanhalli [38]

Mobile photography

Flickr API

Dataset size: 67,000 images

Yang et al. [39]

Job recommender system

4 months’ data were extracted from the job posting and job application records

Lee et al. [40]

Music streaming recommender system

An open-source song dataset

Wei et al. [41]

Cold start items recommender system

Large Netflix dataset with 100 million ratings for 17,770 movies given by 480,189 users

Li et al. [42]

Diverse applications

MovieLens dataset of 1 million ratings on 3952 movies from 6040 users

Mezei and Nikou [43]

Health and wellness recommender systems

Publicly available medical dataset

Dataset size: 20,560 data points

Ayata et al. [44]

Music recommender system

Multimodal DEAP emotion database

Dataset size: 32 items

Zhao et al. [45]

Social-aware movie recommender system

A Chinese movie recommending website has 99,641 ratings on 59,695 movies collected from 4,242 users

Hammou et al. [46]

Big Data recommender system

Two MovieLens datasets of size 10 million and 20 million ratings respectively, and Yelp dataset with 6,685,900 ratings

Zhao et al. [47]

Social network recommender system

Two MovieLens datasets of size 100,000 and 1 million ratings respectively

Bhaskaran and Santhi [48]

E-learning and cloud computing recommender system

A public Book-Crossing dataset with 2,78,858 users providing 1,149,780 ratings on 271,379 books

Afolabi and Toivanen [59]

Chronic disease management recommendation

Health-related data collected from devices and sensors

He et al. [60]

Movie recommender system

MovieLens dataset

Dataset size: 1,000,000 movie ratings

Han et al. [49]

Cancer rehabilitation recommender system

Cancer rehabilitation medical data

Kang et al. [50]

Advertisement recommender system for online broadcasting

Amazon product data has data from 1557 users, 79,344 reviews, and 55,101 items

Ullah et al. [51]

Image-based service recommendation

Amazon product image data

Dataset size: 3.5 million items

Cai et al. [52]

General-purpose recommender system

MovieLens dataset

Dataset size: 1,000,000 movie ratings

Esteban et al. [53]

University course selection recommendation

Student data was collected from a university

Dataset size: 2500 items

Mondal et al. [54]

Doctor recommender system

Neo4j NoSQL graph database, and patient-doctor information collected from different hospitals

Dataset size: 5300 patient records

Dhelim et al. [55]

Product recommender for online shopping

Integrated dataset of a product recommendation system and a social network platform

Dataset size: 6230 items

Bhalse et al. [56]

Movie recommender system

MovieLens dataset containing 100,837 ratings applied over 9743 movies

Ke et al. [57]

Cross-platform dynamic goods recommender system

Data was collected using a cross-platform data collection API

Dataset size: 100 users

Chen et al. [58]

Video recommender system

MovieLens dataset of size 10 million items and micro-video dataset of size 1.7 million items