Re: [tlug] Clustering algorithms

[Al Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:52:03PM -0800, Dave M G wrote:
> Dimitar,
> 
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> 
> What I aim to create is a simple "yes" or "no" for a user on a product.
> 
> So if User A looks at Product X, my system will simply say "this product is recommended to you" or "this product is not recommended to you", based on how users with similar tastes have rated other products.
> 
> The advice you've given will help me towards that, I'm sure.

You might want to look at O'Reilly's Programming Collective Intelligence for a survey
of dfferent machine learning techniques with a major bend towards web applications.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/

I've been reading through the book very slowly but it probably has a bag
of algorithms that you can apply to creating a recommendation system depending
on how fancy you want to get.  It also does a good job of tying the concepts
and jargon with a pretty relevant real world example imo.


Alain