Project Description

Title: Charity Matching

Group Members: Dhanashri Tidke, Jeffy Merin Jacob, Seher Khan

Link to the Dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/donorschoose/io We have only used the files:

1. "Projects.csv"
2. "Donors.csv"
3. "Donations.csv"

Project Structure:

1. CharityMatching_finalpresentation.pptx
2. CharityMatching_finalreport.pdf
3. Content_Based.py: script for executing content based approach
4. Collab_Filtering_LSH.py: script for executing collabrative filtering (LSH) approach
5. Utility_and_Rating_Matrix_Construction_for_Collab_Filtering.py: script for constructing ultility matrix for LSH (and also ratings matrix for ALS which we tried earlier)
6. Inputs_for_Collab_Filtering__Generated_by_Mat_Construct: folder containing files generated by Utility_and_Rating_Matrix_Construction_for_Collab_Filtering.py which are then used by Collab_Filtering_LSH.py