{"id":212,"date":"2019-10-17T01:35:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/?p=212"},"modified":"2019-10-17T01:36:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:36:41","slug":"reflection-4-10-17-viral-pasad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/2019\/10\/17\/reflection-4-10-17-viral-pasad\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection #4 \u2013 [10\/17] \u2013 Viral Pasad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Resnick, Paul, et al. \u201cGroupLens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews.\u201d <\/strong>Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work<\/strong><\/em>. ACM, 1994.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This seems like a very underrated\/underdog work at the intersection of Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. Published in 1994, I wonder what the authors of this paper thought would be the impact of this concept of collaborative filtering. From 1994 to now in 2019 oh boy! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, let me talk about a quick summary of the publication. Now, that I think about it, I understand why this is an underrated work, since they talk about this ‘ongoing experimentation.’ The authors propose GroupLens as an open-source system using Collaborative Filtering to predict user interest \/ rating based on other’s ratings with certain principles in mind, namely:
– openness,
– ease of use,
– compatibility,
– scalability and
– privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, collaborative filtering, or should I say, Reccomender Systems have a come a long way, wether it be recommending shows based on preference (Netflix) or products (Amazon \/ Walmart) or music (Spotify) or even content (Facebook). The authors said, and I quote, “Right now, people read news articles and react to them, but those reactions are wasted. GroupLens is a first step toward mining this hidden resource.”
I am am certain, that this too, like many other technologies, has it’s fair share of advantages, but I would like to focus on the disadvantages that this creates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The echo-chamber effect on Social Media Sites is the perfect example of overdone Collaborative Filtering. Especially when calculatingly applied on bipartisan articles which may have real-world national\/global impacts. Yes I like a given (blue\/red) idea better, but the point of social media presence is that I get acquainted with the other (red\/blue) idea as well to be able to make an informed decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Resnick, Paul, et al. \u201cGroupLens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews.\u201d Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. ACM, 1994. This seems like a very underrated\/underdog work at the intersection of Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. Published in 1994, I wonder what the authors of this paper thought would be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cscw2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}