Case study how simple recommendation techniques improve user experience in e-Commerce [Emilio Carrión @ MercadonaTech]
Emilio Carrión (MercadonaTech) wrote a blog post about how simple recommendations to substitute ‘ghost’ products improve conversion rate and user experience. He defines ‘ghost’ products...
Facebook documents its recommender system — a little bit. [Sarah Perez @ Techcrunch]
Facebook has not been very open about how its recommender system works exactly. This may be about to change though. Today, Techcrunch announced that Facebook...
The Architecture Used at LinkedIn to Improve Feature Management in Machine Learning Models [Jesus Rodriguez@Medium]
The scale of the machine learning problems that an organization like LinkedIn deals with results incomprehensible for data scientists. Building an maintaining a single, effective...
How Do Product Attributes and Reviews Moderate the Impact of Recommender Systems Through Purchase Stages? [Dokyun Lee & Kartik Hosanagar]
An interesting study on the impact of recommender systems in e-Commerce. While, on average, views, conversion|views, and final conversion rates varied by 15.3%, 21.6%, and...
Google medical researchers humbled when AI screening tool falls short in real-life testing [Devin Coldeway @TechCrunch]
Google achieved great ‘theoretical accuracy’ on the detection of diabetic retinopathy. However, in the real-world their approach didn’t perform so well. While this is not...
Why Recommendations On Netflix, Amazon, Or WeChat Could Be More Influential Than You Think [Forbes]
“When’s the last time you saw a movie in a cinema? How about the last time you watched a movie on Netflix? If you’re like...
Recommender Systems May Increase Citations [Scholarly Kitchen]
Recommender systems that promote related articles across publisher platforms increase citations according to a new study. The paper, The Citation Advantage of Promoted Articles in...
More than a decade of the ACM RecSys Conference [Alan Said, 2017]
This is already an old blog post from 2017, but still an intersting read. The eleventh ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys) occurred earlier this year...