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Ryan Petersen - Collective Intelligence
Written on 2008-12-03 13:50:00 in CakeFest, CakePHP,
Viewed 7012 times 1 CommentCollective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individual. Some examples would be Amazon's book recommendations. Netflix uses collective intelligence to track their stock and supply changes, and more accurately allocate their resources. Recommendations requires something to track like sales, or user preferences. A group of users is also required, the larger the group the better. A research survey found that a random sample of less that 1500 people will be the ideal and most efficient sample size. There are many ways to estimate preferences. The most simple and basic one is Euclidean distance scoring. Pearson Correlation Score, also uses 2 axis to plot out the points, this method is used by amazon and delicious. Stochastic Optimization Theory of being able to optimize things. ...
