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How to create my own recommendation engine?

I am interested in recommendation engines these days and I want to improve myself in this area. I am currently reading "Programming Collective Intelligence" I think this is the best book about this subject, from O'Reilly. But I don't have any ideas…
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Looking for collective intelligence .Net / C# resources

Firstly, I realise that this is a very similar question to this one: Which are the good open source libraries for Collective Intelligence in .net/java? ... but all the answers to that one were Java centric so I am asking again, this time looking…
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Way to infer the size of the userbase of a site from sampling taken usernames

Suppose you wanted to estimate the size of a userbase of a site which does not publicize this information. People are more likely to have acquired different usernames with different probabilities. For instance, if the username 'nick' doesn't exist…
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How does Collective Intelligence beat Experts' view?

I am interested in doing some Collective Intelligence programming, but wonder how it can work? It is said to be able to give accurate predictions: the O'Reilly Programming Collective Intelligence book, for example, says a collection of traders'…
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Sorting solr results on the basis of user click?

I am facing the problem of sort Solr results based on user click log. I would like that more accessed results comes first. Does anyone knows how to configure or implement such property in Solr? Thank you very much.
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Python and Collective Intelligence

I'm currently reading a great book called 'Programming Collective Intelligence' by Toby Segaran (which i highly recommend) The code examples are all written in Python, and as I have already learnt one new language this year (graduating from VB.net…
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Algorithm for similarity (of topic) of news items

I want to determine the similarity of the content of two news items, similar to Google news but different in the sense that I want to be able determine what the basic topics are then determine what topics are related. So if an article was about…
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Which are the good open source libraries for Collective Intelligence in .net/java?

Or any open source project which utilize collective intelligence extensively?.
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Store users' comments to data points in d3js graphs

We need to find or build from scratch a tool, that will collect users' feedback on graphs they look at. Scientists commenting some obtained distributions is a typical example. Generally speaking, this should be some kind of collective discussion…
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Correct way to write a Tokenizer in Lucene

I'm trying to analyze content of a Drupal database for collective intelligence purposes. So far I've been able to work out a simple example that tokenizes the various contents (mainly forum posts) and count tokens after removing stop words. The…
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Approaches for Content-based Item Recommendations

I'm currently developing an application where I want to group similar items. Items (like videos) can be created by users and also their attributes can be altered or extended later (like new tags). Instead of relying on users' preferences as most…
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Using API of pydelicious in Python

I'm reading, and trying the exercises in Programming Collective Intelligence, from O'reilly. And in chapter two it's to work with pydelicicous API, and I follow the instruction to get it, but when I run the setup.py file, the following error…
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Meaning of Business Intelligence

The word "Intelligence" has two meanings: 1: the ability to learn, apply knowledge, or think abstractly. 2: a: information concerning an enemy or organization or group with the task of gathering such information. b: news or information of any…
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Media recommendation engine - Single user system - How to start

I want to implement a media recommendation engine. I saw a similar posts on this, but I think my requirements are bit different from those, so posting here. Here is the deal. I want to implement a recommendation engine for media players like VLC,…
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Rails item-to-item recommendation engine database design for boolean data?

I've been studying Programming Collective Intelligence and the algorithms for doing item to item recommendations make enough sense to me so far, but I'm stuck now with how to make an actual database backed system out of what the author describes.…
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