In our experiments profile attributes have very little benefit if at all. Yes
you can do that but you have to do use some advanced techniques to choose an
LLR threshold or the model is likely (with default tuning values) to have a
100% density, meaning both genders like the item. This is an effe
Thank you Pat!
So if I'm understanding correctly, I could set a user profile property as
follows:
{
"event" : "$set",
"entityType" : "user",
"entityId" : "u1234",
"properties" : {
"gender": "female"
},
"eventTime" : "2015-10-05T21:02:49.228Z"
}
Although this is not recomm
The User’s possible indicators of taste are encoded in the usage data. Gender
and other “profile" type data can be encoded a (user-id, gender, gender-id) but
this is used and a secondary indicator, not as a filter. Only item properties
are used a filters for some very practical reasons. For one
Hi all,
I have seen how to use item properties in queries to tailor the
recommendations returned by the UR.
But I was wondering whether it is possible to use user characteristics to
do the same. For example, I want to query for recs from the UR but only
taking into account the history of users th