I asked management here a while ago whether there would be a problem with
releasing an anonymized set of data from one of our retail customers, and
didn't get too much push-back.  If this is something that would be of
major interest, I can ask again and see whether there's something we can
put out as a community resource.

Robin


On 4/10/13 8:37 PM, "Pat Ferrel" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I have retail data but can't publish results from it. If I could get a
>public sample I'd share how the technique worked out.
>
>Not sure how to simulate this data. It has the important characteristic
>that every purchase is also a view but not the other way around and Ted's
>technique is a way to scrub the views that don't lead to purchases. All
>these are implicit preferences but that's not the important part for this
>technique.
>
>On Apr 10, 2013, at 4:15 PM, Koobas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Retail data may be hard to impossible, but one can improvise.
>It seems to be fairly common to use Wikipedia articles (Myrrix, GraphLab).
>Another idea is to use StackOverflow tags (Myrrix examples).
>Although they are only good for emulating implicit feedback.
>
>
>On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Pat Ferrel <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Does anyone know of a public data set that provides things like views
>>>and
>>> purchases?
>>> 
>> 
>> I don't.
>> 
>

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