{"id":728,"date":"2009-06-27T23:40:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T03:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2009-06-27T23:40:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T03:40:41","slug":"728","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/27\/728\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Prize ready to finish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I have been <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=174\">somewhat skeptical<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflixprize.com\/\/index\">Netflix Prize<\/a> (in short:  it seems to be showing how little information is in the data, rather than how much;  and the data is rather strange for &#8220;real data&#8221;), it is still fascinating to watch some pretty high powered groups take a stab at it.  If I understand the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflixprize.com\/\/leaderboard\">standings<\/a> correctly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.att.com\/~volinsky\/netflix\/bpc.html\">&#8220;BellKor&#8217;s Pragmatic Chaos&#8221;<\/a>, a group consisting of people from AT&#038;T, Yahoo! Research, and two companies I am not familiar with, Commendo and Pragmatic Theory have passed the 10% improvement, which means we are now in the final 30 days to determine the overall winner.  I wonder if anyone has a killer model hidden for just this time.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I have been somewhat skeptical of the Netflix Prize (in short: it seems to be showing how little information is in the data, rather than how much; and the data is rather strange for &#8220;real data&#8221;), it is still fascinating to watch some pretty high powered groups take a stab at it. If I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/27\/728\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netflix Prize ready to finish?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-data-mining"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}