A Billion Predictions a Day.

WOW!  Netflix serves nearly a billion movie predictions a day. That is really amazing!  They also collect 2 millions ratings per day.  That is a lot of data.  I would love to see the back end systems that they use to crunch the ratings. I had heard that it takes them 3 days to generate their forecast model now I know why.  You can read more about their technique on forbes.com  I wonder how these numbers relate to what the other recommender systems gather.  I know what we gather at Sourcelight is not nearly as large as this.  I would have thought with all this data they would have released a larger chunk of it for the Netflix prize contest.

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