[Chicago] netflix prize

[Chris McAvoy]

I'm all for it...I really like the Netflix prize concept, but don't
really know what i'm doing.  I bought Programming Collective
Intelligence, and it got me part way, but I still haven't implemented
anything from it.

Chris

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Kumar McMillan
<kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Cosmin Stejerean <cstejerean at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I've started looking at the Netflix prize around the time when it was
>  >  announced but I quickly lost focus since I couldn't find anyone to
>  >  work with. If a team is started I'd love to join.
>
>  ditto.  I got as far as downloading the data, planning out a strategy
>  with IPython2 (Chris McAvoy wrote some code for this already, I
>  think), and attempting to grok a simple approach using the Slope One
>  algorithm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope_One ).  I'd say
>  creating a team would provide good motivation to dig back into this
>  project.  Slope One won't get us anywhere near the winning RMSE but
>  still it would be interesting to implement this kind of logic and
>  personally I'd like to learn more about putting these kind of
>  algorithms to use in Python.  I imagine the contest will be over soon
>  too (http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard), but that doesn't mean
>  it wouldn't be fun to play :)
>
>  btw ... this would be a great Saturday House project :
>  http://groups.google.com/group/chicago-saturday-house
>
>  Kumar
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>  Chicago mailing list
>  Chicago at python.org
>  http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago
>