Yeah I personally had in mind counting explicit 1 star ratings for instance.
On 17 Feb 2011 07:28, "Ted Dunning" <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, almost all implicit negative ratings are very close to useless. > > The analogy would be ordering breakfast in a diner by saying all the things > you don't want to eat to a waitress. The waitress will shortly yearn for a > positive rating. > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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] >>
