Netflix Recommendations Contest

Oct 2

Netflix Recommendations Contest

And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely: This is a great idea.

Netflix, the popular online movie rental service, is planning to award $1 million to the first person who can improve the accuracy of movie recommendations based on personal preferences.

To win the prize, which is to be announced today, a contestant will have to devise a system that is more accurate than the company’s current recommendation system by at least 10 percent. And to improve the quality of research, Netflix is making available to the public 100 million of its customers’ movie ratings, a database the company says is the largest of its kind ever released.

by Deane October 2, 2006 8:20 AM

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by M E-L, October 3, 2006 12:17 PM

For what it's worth, I did a small experiment comparing Netflix with the Movielens collaborative filter.

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