SharePoint 2013 introduced the Recommendations web part, an easy and straightforward way of giving users personalized content recommendations based on their behaviour and the behaviour of other users of the site. In this session you will learn how SharePoint calculates these recommendations, the components used to power recommendations and how you can leverage them. You will also learn how you can use and extend this feature by using custom usage events and influencing the recommendation calculations. Finally, we’ll discuss what you can and cannot do with this feature. 

Learn about usage analytics, usage events and the relationship between search and content recommendations. Understand what you can and cannot do with these tools and how you can extend them for custom scenarios.