TY - GEN
T1 - Putting recommendations on the map - Visualizing clusters and relations
AU - Gansner, Emden
AU - Hu, Yifan
AU - Kobourov, Stephen
AU - Volinsky, Chris
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - For users, recommendations can sometimes seem odd or counterintuitive. Visualizing recommendations can remove some of this mystery, showing how a recommendation is grouped with other choices. A drawing can also lead a user's eye to other options. Traditional 2D-embeddings of points can be used to create a basic layout, but these methods, by themselves, do not illustrate clusters and neighborhoods very well. In this paper, we propose the use of geographic maps to enhance the definition of clusters and neighborhoods, and consider the effectiveness of this approach in visualizing similarities and recommendations arising from TV shows.
AB - For users, recommendations can sometimes seem odd or counterintuitive. Visualizing recommendations can remove some of this mystery, showing how a recommendation is grouped with other choices. A drawing can also lead a user's eye to other options. Traditional 2D-embeddings of points can be used to create a basic layout, but these methods, by themselves, do not illustrate clusters and neighborhoods very well. In this paper, we propose the use of geographic maps to enhance the definition of clusters and neighborhoods, and consider the effectiveness of this approach in visualizing similarities and recommendations arising from TV shows.
KW - Clustering
KW - Graph
KW - Recommender system
KW - Visualization
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U2 - 10.1145/1639714.1639784
DO - 10.1145/1639714.1639784
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:72249116074
SN - 9781605584355
T3 - RecSys'09 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
SP - 345
EP - 348
BT - RecSys'09 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
T2 - 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys'09
Y2 - 23 October 2009 through 25 October 2009
ER -