43. Play More Like This

We've created a playlist of songs we (the algorithm) think you'll love, based on a mysterious set of features. Here's a preview: * Call Me Maybe * Leaving on a Jet Plane * In Da Club * Back in Black * Mrs. Robinson Are you excited? …No? …but the algorithm. How could it be wrong? -+- Links at ianfuchs.xyz/43 -+- * How to master Apple Music liking system to influence ‘For You’ recommendations * The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good — Quartz * GroupLens * How does the Netflix movie recommendation algorithm work? - Quora * The "millennial whoop" is taking over pop music - YouTube * Pandora - Music Genome Project ® * How Netflix Revamped Recommendations for it's New Global Audience * Netflix Never Used Its $1 Million Algorithm Due To Engineering Costs | WIRED * xkcd: Python * The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars (Part 1) * The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars (Part 2) * The Netflix Tech Blog: Recommending for the World * Adam WarRock | Overly Enthusiastic Hip Hop * Content-based Recommender Systems