Monday, October 02, 2006

NetFlix contest

NetFlix is launching a contest to help improve their recommendation engine. How cool is that? Cool to the tune of $1 million?
Librarians, engineers, OCLC Researchers--here's a fun dataset to play around with and learn a thing or two about how recommendations/Long Tail/Pandora-type things might work. (Of course, there's nothing yet on their site about it...)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Here is the page they put up. It's linked from the bottom:

http://www.netflixprize.com/