Hi,
I am new to PredictionIO and I have gone through the tutorial provided
regarding the customer buying and rating products. I encountered queries
regarding those.
1. What if I change the rating of the product? Will it update the result in the
database? Like will it use the most recent rating?
I would strongly recommend against using ratings. No one uses these as
input to recommenders anymore. Netflix doesn’t even show ratings. The best
input to a recommender is a conversion, buy, watch, listen, etc depending
on the item type. But the recommender you are using only allows one of
these as
Wow that page should be reworded or removed. They are trying to talk about
ensemble models, which are a valid thing but they badly misapply it there.
The application to multiple data types is just wrong and I know because I
tried exactly what they are suggesting but with cross-validation tests to
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