On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Tolga Oral <tolga.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> PlusAnonymousUserDataModel will work once the user clicks on couple items > on > the site, however still doesnt solve the dead-start problem. We are > creating > user similarities based on different attributes and use the similarities to > recommend items (doesn't solve all cases though) > This is a pretty simple extension. Cluster your users by the characteristics that you have. Log user behavior for all users both as themselves and as a cluster member. Then when you get a dead-start user, assign them to a cluster and give them recommendations from the cluster. As they interact, they can shed this cluster identity and use their own history.
