recommender

questions we want to address As we indicated in our first post, we are not building FMR as a booking website. Thus it is outside our scope to include all ryokans in Japan. The question then comes: What kind of ryokans should we include? What kind of customers are our target? That means, who will visit our site? For these travelers, what kind of content should we showcase? All of...

This is the first post in a series, in which we will discuss the motivation, methodology and metrics of our recommender project, Find My Ryokan. motivation Imagine you go to a grocery store to buy a bottle of red wine. You don’t usually drink, but this is for your best friend’s party. Looking at all the shelves around you, you are baffled by the wild variety of choices that feel all over the place!...