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brutally short intro to collaborative filtering

March 18, 2010 at 08:38 PM | categories: recommendations, brutally short intro, data mining | View Comments

my favourite recommendations system is the collaborative filter; it gives good resultsand is easy to understand and extend as required.it works on the intuition thatif i like coffee, chocolate and ice creamand you like coffee and chocolateyou might also like ice creamso we need a little bit of terminology; users (me and you), items (coffee, chocolate and ice cream)in a user based collaborative filter the process isto calculate recommendation for user1 for each other user (user2) calculate user_similarity_score between user1 and user2 (0 -> 1 value ) if the user_similarity_score is non zero for each item user2...
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