Every ecommerce website would love to have a full featured recommendation engine like Amazon but how do you get one started? I found one open source project (Taste) but what other resources would you recommend for education and code.
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Programming collective intelligence is a great resource if you want to write your own.
Greg
2008-10-01 04:26:22
This is the second time I've seen someone mention that book so I'm adding it to my wishlist. For a feature that is showing up so often on websites there doesn't appear to be that many good resources online.
Mike L
2008-10-02 17:08:20
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If you're using Ruby, then try the collaborative_filter gem:
http://github.com/tyler/collaborative_filter/tree/master
Heard about this at the Boston Ruby Group meeting, July 2008.
Terry Lorber
2008-10-01 04:57:31
We're a .NET shop so I'm looking for something native or with a web service API. But I'll vote you up since I didnt' specify.
Mike L
2008-10-02 17:10:33
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There is an entire research area in computer science devoted to this subject. I'd suggest reading some articles.
Ricardo Cabral
2008-11-23 15:57:21