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Recommendations For “Kiwi” Exploring Different Techniques For Recommendations In A Kazakh Online Video Website, Tair Kuanyshev Jan 2012

Recommendations For “Kiwi” Exploring Different Techniques For Recommendations In A Kazakh Online Video Website, Tair Kuanyshev

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The aim of this project is to build a recommender system for an online website based on an empirical study using real-world data. The real world data was taken from the website Www.kiwi.kz which is an online video sharing website, providing online video, broadcast and radio to users since 2009. The research problem sought to develop the most suitable recommender system for an online video sharing website and to evaluate the effectiveness of this model on the real world data. This research attempts to develop the recommender system which will suggest possibly interesting video clips for users on an online …


Sports Data Mining Technology Used In Basketball Outcome Prediction, Chenjie Cao Jan 2012

Sports Data Mining Technology Used In Basketball Outcome Prediction, Chenjie Cao

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Driven by the increasing comprehensive data in sports datasets and data mining technique successfully used in different area, sports data mining technique emerges and enables us to find hidden knowledge to impact the sport industry. In many instances, predicting the outcomes of sporting events has always been a challenging and attractive work and is therefore drawing a wide concern to conduct research in this field. This project focuses on using machine learning algorithms to build a model for predicting the NBA game outcomes and the algorithms involve Simple Logistics Classifier, Artificial Neural Networks, SVM and Naïve Bayes. In order to …