Ruby Childs & Nick Sorros - Making Recommendations without Data

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Channel: PyData · 2016 · Science & Technology

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PyData London 2016

As Data Scientists, we often assume we have data! It’s crazy not to. What should you recommend to a new user when you know nothing about them? In this talk we will discuss the challenges we faced, the assumption we took and the solutions we came up with while building a recommendations system for an interest based social network with limited data. 00:00 Welcome!
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