More data or better models?
The discussion of whether it is better to focus on building better algorithms or getting more data is by no means new. But, it is really catching on lately. ...
The discussion of whether it is better to focus on building better algorithms or getting more data is by no means new. But, it is really catching on lately. ...
Last week, I published a post on the Netflix tech blog. The post, entitled “Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars” describes how recommendations have e...
I found Recsys this year of very high quality in general. There were many good papers and presentations. The Industry track was also very high-quality, with...
In the traditional formulation of the “Recommender Problem”, we have pairs of items and users and user feedback values for very few of those dyads. The probl...
Three weeks ago, I started to work for Netflix. Everything has moved so fast with so many things to do and learn that it seems like I have already been here ...
Last week, Denis Parra presented our paper entitled “Walk the Talk: Analyzing the Relation between Implicit and Explicit Feedback for Preference Elicitation”...
A few days back, there was an interesting post by Judy Robertson in the Communications of the ACM blog. The post, entitled “Stats: We’re doing it wrong“, bui...
That was the main title of a series of talks I gave in different labs and companies during my recent California tour. In this presentation, I talked about ma...
I have discussed previously on this blog about how well the Scientific Method adapts to Agile approaches. These ideas also took me to an unfinished effort to...
If you are reading this blog I am pretty sure that you know quite a lot about Quora by now. If not, you should sign on and try it a bit before you continue r...