On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com> wrote:
> 2) What you are doing is something else that I was calling a shopping-cart > recommender. You are using the item-set in the current cart and finding > similar, what, items? A different way to tackle this is to store all other > shopping carts then use the current cart contents as a more-like-this query > against past carts. This will give you items-purchased-together by other > users. If you have enough carts it might give even better results. In any > case they will be different. > Or the shopping cart can be used as a query for the current indicator fields. That gives you an item-based recommendation from shopping cart contents. I am not sure that the more-like-this query buys all that much versus an ordinary query on the indicator fields.
