Re: User features to tailor recs in UR queries?

2017-12-12 Thread Pat Ferrel
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

Re: User features to tailor recs in UR queries?

2017-12-12 Thread Noelia Osés Fernández
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

Re: User features to tailor recs in UR queries?

2017-12-05 Thread Pat Ferrel
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

User features to tailor recs in UR queries?

2017-12-05 Thread Noelia Osés Fernández
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