MY AMAZON RECOMMENDER SYSTEM

In the past weeks I've searched for items other than just photography.
I've realized that my recent searches have simply been photography related and so Amazon was unable to give me much new recommendation on other items that would be of interests to me.

I realized that Amazon.com has a good handle when it comes to photography.
I think it has figure me out fairly well.
By simply typing NIKON I get interesting photography items that is of interests to me.
I realized too since I've been searching for expensive fast lens the lens recommendation that I'm getting are not the average lens.
I'm getting professional lens that are expensive and fast.

I've been testing the system on words words relating to photography but may not be obvious.
For example, I would search for REMOTE and Amazon knowing I've search so much on photography it tosses a Camera Remote along with standard Television remotes.
Out of the 48 items Amazon typically recommends one is photography related.

Again, I test the sysem on common word such as BAG. Amazon was still sneak in 2 photography carrying bags along with purse and other carrying on bags. Another search was simply typing in SOFT. Amazon again was able to throw in a soft nikon camera bag.

Instead of searching for specific photography related words I'm just tossing out words that may have very little correlation to photography. Though most recommendations are not what I'm after at least one or two is items I want to look at and possibly buy or rate it.

GETTING TO KNOW YOU:LEARNING NEW USER PREFERENCES IN RECOMMENDER SYSTEM

http://www.iuiconf.org/02pdf/2002-001-0019.pdf

Paper talks about different strategies to learn about new users.
Experiment utilizes MovieLens dataset both online and offline.

TRIBLER.ORG ( RECOMMENDER RESOURCE)

http://www.tribler.org/

Tribler.com com is a software that people can download free of charge.
It's a P2P social application to help people find contents such as videos, audios, pictures and etc.


Main screen shot of application.
http://www.tribler.org/screenshots/8

Files overview screenshot.
http://www.tribler.org/screenshots/4

Persons overview screenshot.
http://www.tribler.org/screenshots/6

RECOMMENDER SYSTEM

March 19th surf:

By not logging into Amazon.com I simply typed 2.8 as a search key word. Amazon yielded 9 out of 48 items that was related to photography lens. Since the beginning of class a keyword of 2.8 would have probably not yielded photography related items as recommendation. Without logging into my account I realized Amazon was tracking my IP address as well using cookies though I frequently delete my cookies.

MY RECOMMENDER SYSTEM: AMAZON.COM

After my recent purchase of two items from Amazon.com and about several months of surfing and searching items on Amazon.com I realized my recommendation search has greatly improved. I searched many photography related items and realized lately from my computer and home and work without even logging into Amazon I'm getting photography related recommendation. I believe this has alot to do with my wish list and recent purchase. Better yet simply by typing 2.8 Amazon is smart enough to figure that I'm searching for fast lens. This goes back to the very fist lecture when we were asked for a definition of a word. How does a system know. Now Amazon has a better idea of me and my search query. I believe Amazon will continue to make good recommendations that are of interests to me.