The most-popular solution is about as good as you can do in the recommender itself. (except that you should adjust it to hit a wider range of tastes).
The interface can intervene, however, to give a much better experience. Just interpose a page with a selection of topics or top items and have the user select which they might like. From there, you have data to work with and can proceed normally. On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Joe Spears <jspe...@indieplaya.com> wrote: > In what ways do other people solve this initial discovery issue inside of > Mahout? (i.e. outside of using a "stats table" that contains the most > popular items and using that to produce results on behalf of the > recommender). >
