UMAP2011 and IJCAI2011

I’m currently preparing myself for two weeks of Catalan sun, first in Girona for UMAP2011 and then another week in Barcelona for IJCAI2011. Not having been to either of these conferences before, I am (needless to say) quite excited.

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July 8th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: conferences, information retrieval, recommender systems, research | Leave a comment

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 [...]

December 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: misc, recommender systems, research | 4 comments

Mahout on Hadoop in Windows

In an earlier post I described how to deploy Hadoop under Cygwin in Windows. This time I’ll show how to get Mahout running in that environment. [...]

November 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: research | Leave a comment

RecSys09

RecSys09

A couple of weeks ago I attended the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems which was an experience nothing else than excellent.

Day one started with a tutorial on trust based recommendations bu Jenifer Golbeck who is an authority when it comes to trust and recommendation systems. Luckily she was kind enough to [...]

November 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: conferences, recommender systems, research | Leave a comment
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