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39 pointsclay14y ago8 comments

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It looks like it's just returning my watched repos -- what type of recommendation algorithm is it running?

clayOP14y ago

It might service some of your watched repos because of data quality issues. It uses a very basic nearest neighbor shared item set model. I'm definitely planning on improving the quality of the results in the near future.

espeed14y ago

Try loading the data into Neo4j and running Gremlin on it (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki).

Examples...

Multi-Item Based Recommendation https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/XlGGdsSedVw/7pCPqghA84...

Recommendation engine https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/_dnyanUSmtk/eDhJ6rjNCn...

aidanfeldman14y ago

There were a few interesting repos in there I hadn't heard of - nice work!

pathdependent14y ago

Coincidentally, I'm building a github recommendation service as a SNA research project. You may be aware, but for those who are not, GitHub actually had a NetFlix-style recommendation contest in 2009.

https://github.com/blog/466-the-2009-github-contest

clayOP14y ago

That's awesome. I didn't know about that.

nowarninglabel14y ago

Neat in concept, but mostly useless in that it recommended pretty much all projects that I have zero interest in (javascript/coffeescript stuff), which is odd considering I'm not watching any Javascript projects, or at least I don't think I am. It made a couple of shell recommendations, one for IE which I would never touch, one for Spark which I already have installed, and one for Gitflow. Gitflow seems neat though, so I guess one good recommendation might have been worth the rest of the noise?

andrewhubbs14y ago

This is cool.

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