I wrote a thing about collaborative filtering for likes and dislikes! http://davidcelis.com/blog/2012/02/07/collaborative-filtering-with-likes-and-dislikes/
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!
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@mperham Looked through the code for sidekiq and I love it. Are you planning support for unique jobs a là resque-loner?
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Tip: In #javascript, NaN actually stands for “Now a Number”.
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Why I hate the five-star rating scale: http://davidcelis.com/blog/2012/02/01/why-i-hate-five-star-ratings/
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Why I Hate Five-Star Ratings
When I was originally developing goodbre.ws (and, later, recommendable), the very first thing I had to decide was how users would rate items. Would I give them a standard five star system? Maybe something with more granularity, like allowing for half stars? Or perhaps the humble thumbs up or down? Truth be told, going with a binary thumbs up or down system of likes and dislikes was an easy choice. After all, I hate the five-star rating system.