Tag Archives: similarity

Similarity Based Recommendation – Hadoop Way

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Pranab

In my earlier post, I discussed some of the basic  concepts for Similarity Based Recommendation. As discussed, distance between entities in a multi dimensional attributes space is used as a measure of similarity. In this post I will take a … Continue reading →

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Similarity Based Recommendation – The Basics

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Pranab

For recommendation engines, the preferred approach is to use social rating data. My earlier post on recommendation engine provides details of using Collaborative Filtering with social data.However, when no such data is available, or even if it’s available but the … Continue reading →

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