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Collaborative Filtering at Netflix - Three Essential Links

Jun 18 2009

The Netflix prize has drawn significant attention to the emergent field of collaborative filtering. The links below provide rich details about the challenge and the prize.

The Million Dollar Programming Prize (IEEE Spectrum) -- A team's account of the techniques that catapulted them to the lead in the Netflix Prize Competition. Read this article if you are not easily intimidated by terms like "nearest-neighbor algorithm".
$1 Million Netflix Prize So Close, They Can Taste It (Wired) -- On June 16th a team of engineers from Montreal captured the lead in the Netflix Prize Competition. Their submission is 9.78% more accurate at predicting user ratings than the current Netflix system. The first team to be at least 10% better will win the prize.
Another Visualization of the Netflix Prize Dataset (Todd Holloway) -- Powerful visualizations could be the key to solving tough predictive analytics challenges.

Bonus link: My colleague Roman Lenzen specializes in solving analytical challenges similar to the one presented by Netflix. He's also written an article about the competition.

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