Few Queries Regarding the Recommendation Template

2018-06-13 Thread KRISH MEHTA
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?

Re: Few Queries Regarding the Recommendation Template

2018-06-13 Thread Pat Ferrel
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

Re: Few Queries Regarding the Recommendation Template

2018-06-13 Thread Pat Ferrel
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 m