Recommendation Insights has previously described the many ways that genetic variations determine any single individual’s wine taste experience: Inherited Taste Chaos Sabotages Recommendations. Source: Food Chemistry via Palate Press Now comes this very well-written article that expands that concept: Spit and image: How saliva customizes your wine tasting experience: “Not seeing eye to eye on […]
Author Archive | Lewis Perdue
New Research Shows Why Wine Descriptions Don’t Help Consumers Select Wine
New research recently published in the journal Neurocomputing shows one more reason why consumers get little help in choosing wines from the descriptions in wine reviews: the same words mean different things to different people. This fits in with — MISINTERPRETATION: Words = Big Trouble — which is one of the issues that we have […]
Turning White Wine Into Red: Recommendation Failures & The Alchemy Of Context
“[N]o event or object is ever experienced in perfect, objective isolation. It is instead subject to our past experiences, our current mood, our expectations, and any number of incidental details—an annoying neighbor, a waiter who keeps banging your chair, a beautiful painting in your line of sight. With something like wine, all sorts of societal […]
Wine And Music Are A Lot Alike & So Are The Ways Their Recommendation Systems Fail
Wine and music: please our senses, touch our emotions, beg to be shared, are deeply engrained in how we define ourselves and, can determine how other people judge us. Because of those factors, every recommendation system in use today — including those deployed by Pandora, Spotify, Slacker and other online music sites — fail because of: […]
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? […]
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
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: Welcome to the Vino Casino
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, […]