Napoleon Dynamite Effect

they can't seem to quite get to this 10% mark because of the effect of a the ratings on a certain subset of indie movies, the flash point of which is "Napoleon Dynamite."

The other polarizing indie-minded gems the programmers have noticed this same glitch with are: "Fahrenheit 9/11," "I Heart Huckabees," "Lost in Translation," "Kill Bill: Volume 1" (note, not volume 2!), "Sideways," and "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."

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Recommenders Everywhere - WikiLens

Here is the talk. "Suppose you have a passion for items of a certain type, and you wish to start a recommender system around those items. You want a system like Amazon or Epinions, but for cookie recipes, local theater, or microbrew beer. How can you set up your recommender system without assembling complicated algorithms, large software infrastructure, a large community of contributors, or even a full catalog of items?

WikiLens is open source software that enables anyone, anywhere to start a community-maintained recommender around any type of item. We introduce five principles for community-maintained recommenders that address the two
key issues: (1) community contribution of items and associated information; and (2) finding items of interest. Since all recommender communities start small, we look at feasibility and utility in the small world, one with few users, few items, few ratings. We describe the features of WikiLens, which are based on our principles, and give lessons learned from two years of experience running
wikilens.org."