Creating recommendation system

Imagine the situation..

A lot of different movies in different categories...

It's really hard to make a choice...

But there is usually a consultant, who can give you recommendations

This is our «big store»...

Here is the home page of the siteArticles (editor choice)

News wire

UGC (editor choice)

Still, we can't be sure that users will be interested in content the page offers...

Let's make a consultant for users!

Here is our key persona

Artem (ARTemiy) Samoylov16 years old, student

His goals: entertainment, self-expression

On the site he:

watches video,

posts photos,

communicates on Q&A

The home page for Artem

Gather info Transparency Let control Many points to entry Provide detailed info Long tail

Gather info about content user likes:* what he rated with low and high rate

* what he saved to favorites

* what he searched

info from people user co-operate with:* whom he saved to favorites authors

and apply filters:* what he watched

* what recommendation he clicked or ignored on

Make the system's algorithm transparent

Gather info Transparency Let control Many points to entry Provide detailed info Long tail

Let users control recommendation

Gather info Transparency Let control Many points to entry Provide detailed info Long tail

Give user many points of entry

Gather info Transparency Let control Many points to entry Provide detailed info Long tail

Provide detailed info about recommendation

Gather info Transparency Let control Many points to entry Provide detailed info Long tail

“Long tail” - provide user with ability to watch more recommendation

Gather info Transparency Let control Many points to entry Provide detailed info Long tail

The home page for Artem

The difficulties we've faced with

- expensive development- lower speed of pages download- server overload- still big amount of irrelevant recommendation- privacy question is still open

Questions to discuss:

How can we overcome difficulties?

Is the project worth of any efforts?