[Chicago] netflix prize

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Does anybody know what information is in the data they provide. Other  
than user's rating, what's in the movies database that one can use  
for correlation (like actors in the movies, producers, genre, etc.)?

Massimo

On Mar 27, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Chris McAvoy wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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