More data usually beats better algorithms

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By bloid
via anand.typepad.com
Published: Mar 31 2008 / 18:56

I teach a class on Data Mining at Stanford. Students in my class are expected to do a project that does some non-trivial data mining. Many students opted to try their hand at the Netflix Challenge: to design a movie recommendations algorithm that does better than the one developed by Netflix.

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