Google Maps’ route recommendations now consider environment/fuel consumption
Sustainability and eco-friendliness found their way into Google Maps. Google announced that Google Maps will offer route recommendations that might take a bit longer than...
Spotify Adds New Personalized Playlists: Favorite Artists, Genres, and Decades
Spotify announced to introduce three new personalized playlists. The playlists will feature your favorite artists, genre, and decade. Now, we’re excited to share three new...
Microsoft Starts New ‘Because You Liked…’ Game Recommendation Feature For Xbox Game Pass [Laurent Giret @ OnMSFT]
Microsoft has started testing a new Xbox feature that will help gamers find new Xbox Game Pass games to play based on their previous gaming...
Germany’s online stores do not use personalized pricing
A study by the German Ministry for Justice found that online shops in Germany do not use personalized pricing, as reported by several news outlets...
Netflix launches ‘Downloads for You’: Automatic Downloads of Recommended Series and Movies
Three years after Netflix introduced ‘Smart Downloads‘, Patrick Flemming (Director, Product Innovation) announces ‘Downloads For You’. Downloads For You, a new feature that automatically downloads...
Google Scholar re-designs its research-paper recommender system
Google Scholar re-designed its recommender system as announced by Namit Shetty, Alex Verstak, Kyu Jin Hwang, Linghua Jin, Philippe David, and Anurag Acharya. Your Scholar...
Porsche adds a recommendation system to its car configurator
Porsche announced in a press release that Porsche has added a recommendation function to its Car Configurator. Porsche claims to have trained 270 neural networks...
Building a content-based music recommender-system [Amol Mavuduru @TowardsDataScience]
Amol Mavuduru wrote a tutorial on building a content-based music recommender system with Spotify data. Have you ever wondered how Spotify recommends songs and playlists...
‘Rex’: Medium’s Recommender-System as a Microservice [Miles Hinson]
Miles Hinson writes about his experience in developing ‘Rex’, the recommender system for Medium, as a Microservice. He discusses design choices and presents a few...
‘Lazy Predict’ Tutorial for AutoML with scikit-learn [Eryk Lewinson]
Eryk Lewinson wrote a tutorial on how to use Lazy Predict, which is an automated machine learning (AutoML) extension by Shankar Rao Pandala for scikit-learn....