This presentation was used for my thesis defense held at Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, for a double-degree master programme in Distributed Computing. The other two universities participating in the programme are Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and Instituto Tecnico Superior, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Online recommendations at scale using matrix factorisation
1. Thesis presentation:
Online recommendations
at scale with matrix factorisation.
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 22 June 2012
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal Marcus Ljungblad
Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain marcus@ljungblad.nu
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starts are sourced from
recommendations.
41. Photos and pictures borrowed from the Internetz:
Iron Maiden cover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iron_Maiden_(album)_cover.jpg
Cat picture: http://www.lastfm.es/group/Cats
Coins: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1235540
iPhones: http://blog.bayuamus.com/2011/08/user-experience-comparison-between-htc-salsa-and-samsung-galaxy-mini/
Amazon recommendations: http://mashable.com/2010/08/06/online-retail-facebook-data/
TV remote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62337512@N00/2749561795/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Headphones: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markusschoepke/82957375/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Function: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graph_of_example_function.svg
Home servers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabrico/477844434/sizes/z/in/photostream/