[Air-L] Research on collaborative filtering?
Bernhard Rieder
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Mon Nov 24 00:26:48 PST 2008
Hi Jason,
Duncan Watts (a physicist gone sociologist) has done a large scale
experiment on the collective emergence of taste, not really via direct
GroupLens-like technologies but a system based on voting (not that
dissimilar, really):
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15wwlnidealab.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
You will normally find quite a lot on usage experiments in certain CS
papers (normally follow up surveys to show that one algorithm is more
useful than another), just skip the formal discussion...
best,
Bernhard
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Jason Mittell wrote:
> Hi all - inspired by the excellent Clive Thompson article in today's NYT
> on Netflix & collaborative filtering
> (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html ), I want
> to bring a research project off the backburner about collaborative
> filtering and taste cultures. Does anyone know of any research from a
> more cultural/social perspective on CF? The research that's I've found
> via searches is all about algorithms - since I don't want to build a
> system, but rather study their use & significance, those articles are
> less than useful (and utterly incomprehensible to my humanistic mind).
> I'd appreciate any references about recommendation systems and
> collectivized taste that you know of.
>
> And on a related note, if other people are interested in the topic,
> might we want to put together a panel for IR 10.0? If so, contact me
> off-list.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jason
>
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