Taste: user's neighbours and their similarity

2009-03-18 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi, Is there a way to get a collection of neighbours for a given user? I'm referring to the same neighbour collection that recommendations are derived from. I didn't see a way, so I simply made NearestNUserNeighborhood.Estimator public (diff below), so I could do something like this:

Re: Taste: user's neighbours and their similarity

2009-03-18 Thread Sean Owen
How about the method UserBasedRecommender.mostSimilarUsers()? or a bit more directly, UserNeighborhood.getUserNeighborhood()? (They are arguably kind of redundant but it's 'for historical reasons' and low on my list of design sins.) These in turn largely use TopItems.getTopUsers() and you