(True, the SVD's real benefit is that it can build more user-user and/or item-item connections by squeezing the data down into many fewer dimensions. It's making more items be co-rated in a sense.)
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Tamas Jambor <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/08/2010 18:29, Sebastian Schelter wrote: >> >> What talk about is actually not a bug, if there are no co-rated items >> it's absolutely logical that nothing can be recommended. In a real world >> application you would maybe want to show the user the latest or overall >> top-rated items as a workaround (just to show them something). >> > > Thanks, it's true for neighbourhood based algorithms, but SVD could still > give you results. > > Tamas >
