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Ulrich, et al.

Hal and Paul wrote their recommender systems article a long time ago, when
people were more positive and less cynical about manipulation of such
systems.* What's the latest research?

*Note that Hal may have been the only non-cynical economist;-)

Valdis Krebs is right: it's easy to spoof many systems.

The ones I have been wondering about are YouTube, where "favorites" always
seem to include atonal young teens: singing, or stripping or both. I may
be naive, but I cannot believe that "cutie costume" or "my chemical
romance on new year's eve" -- both favorites at this moment -- really are
getting 100s, 1000s, and even tens of 1000s of votes.

Copying to the Communication & Info Tech section of the ASA, for their
interest and input.
 Barry Wellman
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> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 20:54:28 +0100
> From: Ulrik Brandes <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: "People who viewed this item also viewed..." "People who bought this item also bought..."
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> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:19:55PM -0500, Valdis Krebs wrote:
> > Been doing that for years, Bill...
> >
> > http://www.orgnet.com/booknet.html [1999!]
> >
> >
> > On Dec 31, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Bill.Richards wrote:
> > >An interesting approach to gathering network data?
> > >
> > >http://www.aggregateknowledge.com/index.html
>
> While I think Bill was referring to a particular data collection method,
> for those interested in principles and techniques I'd recommend [sic]
> to start looking at the vast literature on "recommender systems," or
> "collaborative filtering" as a variant was called in 1992.
>
> An easy starter, cited several hundred times since, is
>
> Paul Resnick and Hal R. Varian
> Recommender systems
> Communications of the ACM 40(3):56-58, 1997
> ACM Press
>
> Best regards,
>
> B.
>
>

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