ETHIO PLANET - Oct 8 - When the Netflix
Prize was awarded last month, it ended three years of intense
competition aimed at finding a better algorithm for predicting users’
movie preferences. The winning team, BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos, was the
first to
forecast Netflix customers’ movie ratings with 10% better
accuracy than the company’s in-house system. Gavin Potter, who gained
recognition for his breaking the top 10 of
the Netflix prize in 2008, is working on applying his own research for
the prize to the dating site YesNoMayB, which employs two-way
recommendation
algorithms to find users who may want to meet one another. In
particular, he hopes to use insights from the Netflix Prize to make
predictions based on users’ implicit preferences, such as what pages
they load. FULL ARTICLE @ ETHIO PLANET
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