Data Challenges from Business Disruption – Solutions and Opportunities

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For our first recast Carl Mela will discuss recommendation systems for contexts such as online news or e-tailing involve new users and new items and therefore face several challenges; i) how to make initial recommendations to users with little or no response history, ii) how to learn user preferences for items, iii) how to scale the recommendation system across many users and items, with many potential demographics and attributes respectively, and iv) how to recommend menus instead of items. While many recommendation systems accommodate aspects of these challenges, few, if any, address all. Thus, we develop a recommended approach for these contexts.