Having just read the recent article in Wired, I'm curious: what is it about the Netflix Prize that's so challenging? I mean this in the sincerest way possible, I'm just curious about the difficulties posed by the contest. Are most recommendation engines in general this hard to improve? If so, why is that? Or, is Netflix unusually dif...
Does anyone know about any competitions or tasks that are similar to the Netflix Prize? It's not only about the money, but also about the dimension of data, the strong link with challenging tasks.
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Hi,
I am looking to work on a machine learning project for my course and I would like to use the netflix prize dataset? But it looks like the contest is closed and the dataset is not available for download in the netflix website. Does anyone who wokred on it has the dataset? If so ,can u share it?
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