I’m presenting OER Recommender at RecSysTEL today
Posted on September 30th, 2010 by joel
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OER Recommender at RecSysTEL
Getting started with Hadoop on Amazon’s elastic mapreduce
After playing with Hadoop a bit in the past, I’m now trying out some things on Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce.
I signed up for a new AWS account and ran their sample LogAnalyzer Job Flow using the AWS console. That was easy enough. Next I attempted to run the same sample from the command line using the [...]
Posted on September 8th, 2010 by joel
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Solving aggregation problems
In Folksemantic, we run into the following problems:
Duplicate entries. Search and recommendation results that list multiple entries for the same resource.
Catalog pages. Search and recommendation results that link to catalog pages for resources (people would rather go directly to the resource, but the metadata providers want people to go to their catalog entry for the [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by joel
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Presenting personal recommendations
Generating personal recommendations is one thing, presenting them to the user in a way that they find them useful is something else. Here are our plans for folksemantic.com:
Personal recommendations page – For each user, provide a personal recommendations page. Visually separate recommendations that they have already clicked on.
Personal recommendations tool – Include a personal recommendations [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by joel
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A personal recommendation algorithm
We’re in the process of building out personal recommendations for folksemantic.com. The basis for the recommendations is user attention metadata. The data we use includes:
Identity feeds – RSS feeds that users register that represent their interests. For example, their blog or their delicious account.
Clicks – The articles that the user clicks on.
Shares – The articles [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by joel
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