I’ve decided to mess around with the Netflix prize for the rest of October. At the same time I’ll be trying to get the word out about FantasyLife, RSStalker and PlanbookEDU. Planbook is a site I built for my wife, a third grade teacher, a few years ago. Although it isn’t a SiteAMonth site, it probably has the most active users of any of my sites and has definatly brought in the most $$$.

The Netflix Prize is a contest to improve there rating prediction system. Based on a customers rating of movies you have to predict how they rated a certain movie. I have a few ideas, incorporating some of the stock market / sports prediction systems I’ve done in the past. Although I can’t even get started because it’s taking me a solid day to load the data. The files are 2 gigs uncompressed and over 100 million rows once formated for MySQL.

I’ll probably post the code I used to format and load the data once I have it actually done. I’m also interested in checking out some random stats, like worst rated movie, so I may post about that too…

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