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...
Building Recommender Systems, An Introductory List [Arnie B. @Flipboard]
Here is a curated collection of my favourite posts for people starting out in recommender systems and personalization. This was created in preparation for our...
Survey of Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Filtering [Elnabarawy et al.]
Collaborative filtering recommendation systems provide recommendations to users based on their own past preferences, as well as those of other users who share similar interests....
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...
Covid-19 Open Source Project Recommender [Adam Barnhard@TowardsDataScience]
Adam Barnhard “built a COVID-19 Project Recommendation System to help people discover open source projects in the community. [He had] been inspired by how much...
Watchworthy’s personalized TV recommendation app will help you find your next binge [TechCrunch]
Ranker, an online publisher that turns crowdsourced lists and fan rankings into a data business, is now turning its attention to the world of streaming...
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...