Complaints about the use of personal information for everything from predictive product recommendations to credit ratings and consumer credit card interest rates have provoked lawsuits, increasing consumer outrage, and a growing chorus of demands for tighter governmental controls. The greater accuracy of the Tribes algorithm plus its ability to perform in a totally anonymous data […]
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Next Glass: A Step In Solving Wine Rating’s Genetic Issues
NOTE: This article uses “wine” to avoid having to type “beer or wine” everywhere. But, unless noted otherwise, a reference to wine refers to both beer and wine. The Next Glass wine and beer selection app is a step toward more accurate wine recommendations, but faces several substantial hurdles on the path to accuracy, scalability […]
How Predictive Big Data Fails
Recommendations from big data predictive methods are a lot like the use of epidemiology to determine the cause of a disease: Both rely on the statistical analysis and correlation of massive amounts of data. Both are indicative that something is happening. Both can offer insights into a phenomenon. Both are easily derailed by unknown confounding […]
Recommendation News – Nov. 4, 2014
Wine Shopping in Boston Just Got a Lot Easier
Recommendation News – Nov. 3, 2014
Corkz Update Extends Global Reach of the Wine Information App Pandora for beer? Vivino, Club W Use Tech To Help Wine Lovers Find Favorites Damned Experts! Damned “Know-Nothings!” … (Damn You, Consumers) Grade Inflation Is Killing The Value of Wine Reviews Discovering your own taste in wine beyond 100-point scores What’s 97 points between friends? […]
Product Recommendations: Digital Seeps into the Physical World
Source: eMarketer
Recommendation News – Oct. 30, 2014
Wine Lovers Should Open Their Palates To Technology To Find Favorites Corkz Update Extends Global Reach of the Wine Information App
What Problems Does Tribes/Clans Solve & How?
The Tribes algorithm offers far more accurate recommendations than any other system in use for products and services “of personal taste” including (but not limited to): books, movies, wine, restaurants, cheese, beer, cocktails, and anything “Yelp-able.” Because wine is probably the most complicated product on the planet to recommend accurately, Tribes has been developed through […]
INCOMPATIBILITY: Profile Matching
A PERSONAL NOTE: My apologies in advance to a number of good friends and colleagues who are still trying to get wine profile systems to work. But, as you read on, my hands-on experience and further research leads me to believe that the system has inherent problems that will prevent it from reaching the potential […]
THE PROBLEM: Casino Recommendations
This is part of a series on flaws in current wine recommendation systems originally published at Wine Industry Insights: Genetics: Inherited Taste Chaos Sabotages How Wine Gets Recommended Scaling: 3/4 Of Wine In The US Has NEVER Been Rated By Critics Misinterpretation: Words: Big Trouble For Tasting Notes Inconsistency: Rating The Rating Systems Psychology: Vino-Anxiety, […]