Thanks Sean for response. Let say, I have tags associated to the items where items are more like an e-commerce(electronics, less than 20$, best buy product,..so on) and I have some users demographic information. So, I was thinking that I can write UserSimilarity and ItemSimilarity based on these.
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > The best, or perhaps only, way to integrate such information is to > implement your own version of UserSimilarity or ItemSimilarity and > then use a user-based or item-based recommender. You can implement > whatever similarity rule you think is best according to your metadata. > There's not a lot to be said unless you can say more about exactly > what metadata you have. > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Jahangir Mohammed > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I followed very much the example as given in the documentation and it's > > working as expected so far. > > > > Have a question on how I can use some of the metadata I have for users > and > > items to still improve the recommendations. It looks obvious how to do > it, > > but still want to get a heads up from people who have been using taste > for > > a while. So, is my assumption correct that I have to implement > > UserSimilarity and ItemSimilarity interfaces? > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > Thanks, > > Jahangir. >
