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Similarity Weighting Schemes for Collaborative Filtering

Recently I presented a paper on the effects of similarity weighting schemes on collaborative filtering recommender systems at the 27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, more specificall in the Track on Trust, Reputation, Evidence and Collaborative Know-How.

I received a few questions about the presentation, this post aims at answering some of them, and provide [...]

Social networks and media consumption

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the vast majority of my YouTube consumption came from links people in my Twitter, Facebook, etc. feeds posted to their timelines.

This got me thinking. How is our media consumption affected by our feeds (or our friends feeds actually)? Which types of media are affected more than [...]

Hadoop + HBase + Cygwin + Windows 7 x64

In this post I will describe how to get a Hadoop environment with HBase running in Cygwin on Windows 7 x64.

Having spent the better part of a week reading through blog posts and documentation, I found that none of them covered the process in full detail, at least not for the software versions I [...]

#RecSys2010

RecoMMender Systems

If you’re reading this, you might have read my previous posts about RecSys2010, and in that case you might know that I had axtremely high expectations for this year’s RecSys conference, and I was not dissappointed.

The conference program had been extended from last year and now included two days of workshops: [...]

#RecSys2010 thoughts

RecSys2010

Just over a week to go till this year’s Recommender Systems conference and I must say I am really looking forward to it. Out of the (not very many) conferences I’ve been to (WSDM2009, RecSys2009, ECML-PKDD2009, IUI2010), last year’s RecSys was the one I enjoyed most (IUI being a very close runner up). [...]

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