Friday, October 27, 2006

The Netflix prize

I really want to be working on the netflix prize but I can't because then I would have no time left in my life. The idea is to write a program that comes up with better movie recommendations for netflix users. So that people have something to work with they've released a lot of data. Some of the most interesting discussions on the forums are about the data. Like this one that is a spookily accurate way of mesuring not just which films have the best rating but which films are loved, hated and divisive. It's a well written clever discription and worth reading. And it all flows from a simple question why is Miss Congeniality the most rated film on Netflix?

Netflix Prize: Forum / Miss Congeniality

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