{"id":867,"date":"2009-09-21T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2009-09-21T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T15:23:55","slug":"and-the-winner-of-the-netflix-prize-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/21\/and-the-winner-of-the-netflix-prize-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Winner of the Netflix Prize is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.att.com\/%7Evolinsky\/netflix\/bpc.html\">BellKor\u2019s Pragmatic Chaos<\/a>!\u00a0 While The Ensemble nipped BPC at the wire for the public test sets, the BellKor team did better on the hidden test set.\u00a0 From the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflixprize.com\/\/community\/viewtopic.php?id=1537\"> announcement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Team BellKor\u2019s Pragmatic Chaos edged out team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-ensemble.com\/\">The Ensemble<\/a> with the winning submission coming just 24 minutes before the conclusion of the nearly three-year-long contest.\u00a0 Historically the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflixprize.com\/leaderboard\">Leaderboard<\/a> has only reported team scores on the quiz subset. The Prize is awarded based on teams&#8217; test subset score. Now that the contest is closed we will be updating the Leaderboard to report team scores on both the test and quiz subsets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great work by all of the teams:\u00a0 I think we really do understand a bit more about this data and about data mining in general due to this contest.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like this was successful enough for Netflix to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflixprize.com\/community\/viewtopic.php?id=1520\">plan a second contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BellKor\u2019s Pragmatic Chaos!\u00a0 While The Ensemble nipped BPC at the wire for the public test sets, the BellKor team did better on the hidden test set.\u00a0 From the announcement: Team BellKor\u2019s Pragmatic Chaos edged out team The Ensemble with the winning submission coming just 24 minutes before the conclusion of the nearly three-year-long contest.\u00a0 Historically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/21\/and-the-winner-of-the-netflix-prize-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the Winner of the Netflix Prize is &#8230;&#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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prizes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}