Amazon knows me now
Feb. 16th, 2005 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khedronAfter playing with my Amazon recommendations a bit (partly inspired by the information retrieval class I'm taking, where one of the things we talk about is how to use statistics to do things like collaborative filtering), I'm impressed. Amazon knows me fairly well. What did it recommend for me? "Sethra Lavode", and "University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 7 : The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Readings in Western Civilization)"
To be fair, "Sethra Lavode" is #1 on the list, and the U of C Civ book #215. But they're both there, and that makes sense.
Tips for improving Amazon's recommendations:
1) Click on their "Recommendations Wizard" to de-select entire categories you're not interested in.
2) Make use of the "NOT INTERESTED!" box when they suggest things you neither love nor hate, but simply don't care about.
3) Rate things you dislike, as well as things you like! That helps bring your average rating down to "average", so they can more effectively make use of information about things you really like.
To be fair, "Sethra Lavode" is #1 on the list, and the U of C Civ book #215. But they're both there, and that makes sense.
Tips for improving Amazon's recommendations:
1) Click on their "Recommendations Wizard" to de-select entire categories you're not interested in.
2) Make use of the "NOT INTERESTED!" box when they suggest things you neither love nor hate, but simply don't care about.
3) Rate things you dislike, as well as things you like! That helps bring your average rating down to "average", so they can more effectively make use of information about things you really like.
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