Recently I started to blog about a recommender project, Find My Ryokan that I am a PM of. I intend to write a series discussing the motivation, methodology and metrics of the recommender. My first post describes current traveler challenges and what we aim to solve. My second post shows how we use the latest tourism trends to guide our product design.
My professional interest is in applying recommenders to travel planning and reservation. So it is natural that I’ll keep up with books on both technical implementation and those that dissect the cultural influences of recommendation systems. After finishing the book Computing Taste, which charted the change of recommendation systems in the music/movie industry, I want to extend what was discussed in the book to changes in software development paradigm, as well as societal views on mistakes or criteria for finished products....