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Can't they just make great recommendations based on: People who have music X on their playlist also have Y a lot. Person A listens to X but not Y. Let's make t
by konschubert 9y ago
Can't they just make great recommendations based on:
People who have music X on their playlist also have Y a lot.
Person A listens to X but not Y. Let's make them discover Y.
You could just build a topology of songs like that and then recommend songs to user A if they are topologically close to the songs he likes.
EDIT: Read the article now :D they do that and it's called Collaborative Filtering.
- icebraining 9y agoIt's also how Criticker recommends films, and I have to say their predicted scores are uncanny. After watching a film, I often think of a 1-100 score and then look it up on their site, and it's at most ±2 from it. (Not affiliate, just a big fan)
- rom16384 9y agoAnother movie recommendation website is MovieLens, http://movielens.umn.edu/ http://movielens.umn.edu/ which is run by a research group of University of Minnesota.