Netflix Competition
Netflix prize is a competition
on predicting customers' movie ratings.
We are given a #movies x #customers matrix.
Each entry corresponds to a customer's
rating to a particular movie.
Only some entries of this matrix
are available, and they
are referred to as training data.
We then construct a model to
predict those missing entries.
This is an ongoing competition. We
hope to submit some results in the
end of this course.
April 26: introduction and discuss our
possible approaches.
May 3: someone introduces the evaluation
code.
Two groups present their plans
Select two subsets for training and validation.
May 10:
Discuss our method of selecting subsets for validation.
Each group shows their validation error.
Discuss the possibility of attending KDD cup 2007.
May 17:
Submit Ma's simple approaches on all data.
Last modified: Thu May 10 10:28:57 CST 2007