For using Mahout in production you need a feedback loop. The implementers are drawn to sexy things like great algorithms, and can print out a bunch of numbers and say, "ok, that looks right". I keep hacking up ways to interpret and view what Mahout spits out, and I'm not happy with any of them.
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, from a practical point of view, people rarely watch videos repeatedly, > even if they like them and want to see more. > > (people - excluding two year olds who will watch something they like until > it wears out) > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I agree that ratings contain relatively little data. Here you're not using >> direct ratings, but inferring some notion of rating from impressions. Does >> your scheme make sense? It's not illogical but not one I would choose. To >> me, there is the most "information" in the jump from 0 impressions to 1. >> There are a universe of things you don't look at; the fact that you look at >> something at all is much more significant. Looking at something 2, 3, 10, >> 100 times from there means something more, but not much more in comparison. >> > -- Lance Norskog [email protected]
