Netflix just implemented some updates to their star rating predictions based on some work done on the Netflix Prize. Here’s what Todd Yellin, Director of Product Management, and Jon Sanders, Director of Recommendation Systems have to say on the Netflix Blog.
Mar 25
Greg Linden put together a few thoughts about recommendation algorithms. His ideas continue at a post on the Communications of the ACM Blog.
Nov 21
The NY Times highlights the problem that recommendation systems like Netflix sometimes have. For movies like Napoleon Dynamite, people either love them or hate them and it is very tricky to predict which it will be.

