A Hybrid Approach Based Diet Recommendation System Using ML and Big Data Analytics

Abstract

Recommendations are useful suggestions used by people from all walks of life. However, the usage of recommender systems plays a vital role in modern applications. They are found in different domains such as E-commerce. Concerning the health care industry, recommendations play a very crucial role. This industry has significance as it is linked to the lives of people and their well-being. Human health depends on the diet followed. Keeping this fact in mind, in this paper, we investigated healthy diet recommendations. The recommender systems that are existing in healthcare focused a little in this area. From the literature, it is understood that most of the frameworks on health recommendations are theoretical in nature. As food decides health, it is to be given paramount importance. In this paper, we proposed a hybrid mechanism based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for big data analytics. Particularly we used Machine Learning (ML) for generating healthy diet recommendations. The proposed system is known as Hybrid Recommender System (HRS). It involves a hybrid approach with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning. An algorithm named Intelligent Recommender for Healthy Diet (IR-HD) is proposed to analyze data and provide healthy diet recommendations. IR-HD could generate recommendations on a healthy diet and outperform existing models. Python data science platform is used to implement the recommender system. The results of experiments showed that the system is capable of providing quality recommendations and it has performance improvement over the state of the art.