Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-04-07 Thread Ted Dunning
That book is a fine beginning, but doesn't have a lot of detail. Check out Pat's very nice demo site for more information. I have also given a ton of talks on the subject. And, to answer your question, cooccurrence recommendation works great with diverse sources of behavior. On Sun, Apr 6, 20

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-07 Thread Pat Ferrel
Exactly so. Recording different types of input was one reason to build a site that looked good enough to feasibly get a little traffic. For instance, one of the recommendation types is “Based on videos you recently viewed” You see these on detail pages as well as the recommend page. These detai

Cooccurrence Recommenders

2014-04-07 Thread Pat Ferrel
For what it’s worth I’ve got a few blogs posts and some screen casts on the internals and theory behind cooccurrence recommenders. http://occamsmachete.com/ml/2013/05/10/recommender-as-a-shopping-assistant-part-1/ There are four in this series with the same number of screencasts. All the screenc