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 […]
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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
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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 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, […]
GENETICS: Inherited Taste Chaos Sabotages Recommendations
Some people hate the taste of raw tomatoes. Others get positively hostile if you try to feed them cilantro. Broccoli bashers abound. Liquorice loathers understandably shy away from foods seasoned with fennel and anise seed. What does this have to do with wine preferences? Only everything. INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE VS. RATING One of the things that […]
SCALING: Most Products Have NEVER Been Rated By Critics
Consumers who try to rely upon wine ratings to make purchase decision are often thwarted by the widespread absence of reviews. For that reason, I’ve been trying to figure out about how many wines that are for sale in the United States have actually been rated by critics. The numbers suggest that only about 25% […]