Domain Integration Techniques for Discovering Hidden Clusters using Collaborative Filtering Brandy Brewster
What is a Recommender System? Existing information Ratings Prediction User/Item pairs
How do they work? Collaborative Filtering –Rating-to-Rating –Amazon.com Semantic/Content Based Filtering –Item-to-Item –Netflix.com
Caveats Shortcomings of current algorithms –Netflix 8.5% improvement Scarcity of data
The Data GroupLens –MovieLens –Book-Crossing Baylor Library –Marc Records Amazon –Web Services
The Data GroupLens –MovieLens –Book-Crossing Baylor Library –Marc Records Amazon –Web Services
The Data GroupLens –MovieLens –Book-Crossing Baylor Library –Marc Records Amazon –Web Services
Domain Integration
Testing the System Data Set –278,858 users total Test Set –27,081
Measuring the Results Mean Absolute Error – Coverage –
Preliminary Results
Future Work
Questions?