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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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211
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 2, 2010 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Computing
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| Abstract - #306126 |
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Title:
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The Netflix Prize Story: Methods and Madness
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Author(s):
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Chris Volinsky*+ and Robert Bell
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Companies:
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AT&T Labs - Research and AT&T Labs - Research
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Address:
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AT&T Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, NJ, 07932, USA
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Keywords:
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collaborative filtering ;
ensembles ;
crowdsourcing
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Abstract:
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In October 2006, Netflix released a data set 100 million movie ratings as part of a $1 million dollar competition to improve their online system for recommending movies. The competition generated rabid interest from parts of the statistics and data mining communities.
Three years later, the competition ended and the prize awarded to a multinational team of researchers who had mostly never met each other. This talk is from a member of that team, and will document some of the stories along the way: new methodologies for collaborative filtering, strategies for ensembles of models, optimizing team collaborations, and the overall role of contests and crowdsourcing for science.
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