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Show HN: Github repo recommendation service

39 points by clay 15y ago

espeed 15y ago
It looks like it's just returning my watched repos -- what type of recommendation algorithm is it running?
- clay 15y ago
  It might service some of your watched repos because of data quality issues. It uses a very basic nearest neighbor shared item set model. I'm definitely planning on improving the quality of the results in the near future.
  - espeed 15y ago
    Try loading the data into Neo4j and running Gremlin on it (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki). Examples... Ranked similarity search https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/tuoqDlq45ys/1g1G9nTzjhYJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/tuoqDlq45ys/1g1G9nTzjh... Multi-Item Based Recommendation https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/XlGGdsSedVw/7pCPqghA84kJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/XlGGdsSedVw/7pCPqghA84... Recommendation engine https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/_dnyanUSmtk/eDhJ6rjNCnUJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/_dnyanUSmtk/eDhJ6rjNCn...
  - aidanfeldman 15y ago
    There were a few interesting repos in there I hadn't heard of - nice work!
andrewhubbs 15y ago
This is cool.
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pathdependent 15y ago
Coincidentally, I'm building a github recommendation service as a SNA research project. You may be aware, but for those who are not, GitHub actually had a NetFlix-style recommendation contest in 2009. https://github.com/blog/466-the-2009-github-contest https://github.com/blog/466-the-2009-github-contest
- clay 15y ago
  That's awesome. I didn't know about that.
nowarninglabel 15y ago
Neat in concept, but mostly useless in that it recommended pretty much all projects that I have zero interest in (javascript/coffeescript stuff), which is odd considering I'm not watching any Javascript projects, or at least I don't think I am. It made a couple of shell recommendations, one for IE which I would never touch, one for Spark which I already have installed, and one for Gitflow. Gitflow seems neat though, so I guess one good recommendation might have been worth the rest of the noise?

39 points by clay 15y ago

espeed 15y ago

It looks like it's just returning my watched repos -- what type of recommendation algorithm is it running?

clay 15y ago
It might service some of your watched repos because of data quality issues. It uses a very basic nearest neighbor shared item set model. I'm definitely planning on improving the quality of the results in the near future.
- espeed 15y ago
  Try loading the data into Neo4j and running Gremlin on it (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki). Examples... Ranked similarity search https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/tuoqDlq45ys/1g1G9nTzjhYJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/tuoqDlq45ys/1g1G9nTzjh... Multi-Item Based Recommendation https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/XlGGdsSedVw/7pCPqghA84kJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/XlGGdsSedVw/7pCPqghA84... Recommendation engine https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/_dnyanUSmtk/eDhJ6rjNCnUJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/_dnyanUSmtk/eDhJ6rjNCn...
- aidanfeldman 15y ago
  There were a few interesting repos in there I hadn't heard of - nice work!

andrewhubbs 15y ago

This is cool.

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pathdependent 15y ago

Coincidentally, I'm building a github recommendation service as a SNA research project. You may be aware, but for those who are not, GitHub actually had a NetFlix-style recommendation contest in 2009. https://github.com/blog/466-the-2009-github-contest https://github.com/blog/466-the-2009-github-contest

clay 15y ago
That's awesome. I didn't know about that.

nowarninglabel 15y ago

Neat in concept, but mostly useless in that it recommended pretty much all projects that I have zero interest in (javascript/coffeescript stuff), which is odd considering I'm not watching any Javascript projects, or at least I don't think I am. It made a couple of shell recommendations, one for IE which I would never touch, one for Spark which I already have installed, and one for Gitflow. Gitflow seems neat though, so I guess one good recommendation might have been worth the rest of the noise?