If I was the business, I would analyze the "put in cart but did not buy" list. Negative ratings are just as useful as positive ratings. Possibly this gives a +1/-1 ternary value?
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > My experience is that there is a very small number of events that indicates > real engagement. Using them in the form of Boolean preferences helps results. > A lot. > > Using all of the other events that do not indicate engagement is a total > waste of resources because you are simply teaching the machine about things > you don't care about. > > Moreover there are probably some kinds of events that vastly outnumber > others. Events that are less than 1% of your can matter bit often not. > > The valuable secret sauce you will gain is which events are which. Which make > your system sing and which ones just clog up the drains. > > Matthew wrote: > users can do.. "view", "add to cart", and "buy" which I've assigned > different preference values to. Perhaps it would be better to simply > use boolean yes/no in my case? > -- Lance Norskog [email protected]
