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David Celis

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Collaborative Filtering with Likes and Dislikes

We’ve talked about some of the pitfalls of the five-star rating system and how a binary system based on likes and dislikes can be much better, but what does using this kind of rating system look like in practice? How can we take a user’s likes and dislikes and use them to generate helpful recommendations? The answer, as with the five-star system, is through collaborative filtering, but we can rely on a methodology better suited to a binary system!