Sean, Thanks for responding, I understand now , since the item based recommendations would be disjoint is there anyway to have the user preferences influence the recommendations returned or is there no relation at all between these two.
Regards Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2012, at 7:12 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure what you mean, the recommendations ought to be disjoint from > existing preferred items, so what is the intersection's purpose? > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi All, >> We've built a prototype recommendations engine using the taste item >> similarity algorithms and have wrapped this around a Rest API. I have also >> written code to basically take the mathematical intersection of the >> recommendations returned from taste with the actual user preferences both >> of which are stored in our MySQL instance. This is somewhat tedious so I >> was wondering if it makes sense to build a configurable plugin that takes >> in a set of user preferences and have that influence the item similarity >> recommendations that are being returned. >> >> >> Thoughts, let me know if I was unclear in anything above. >> >> Sent from my iPhone
