Top Nodes with Google Analytics: balancing exploitation and exploration for content recommendation using "multi-armed bandit" algorithm
Posted by danithaca on March 22, 2010 at 7:16pm
About me: I'm a PhD student at the University of Michigan School of Information, with a research focus on designing recommender systems. I'm also a Drupal fan, and have been using Drupal and developing for Drupal for 3 years. Last year I participated in GSoC 2009 and developed the recommender bundle modules. For more information about me, please visit http://michiza.com
Overview: The proposed module will make content recommendations using Google Analytics tracking data, and strive for a balance between "exploitation" (recommending popular contents) and "exploration" (recommending new and trendy contents) using the "multi-armed bandit" (MAB) algorithm
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