Programming collective intelligence : building smart web 2.0 applications / Toby Segaran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segaran, Toby.

Contributor:

Safari Books Online (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Social aspects--Programming.

Information technology.

Internet programming.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 334 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Sebastapol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2007.

Sebastapol, California : O'Reilly, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by participatory Internet applications. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from other web sites, collect data from users of your own applications, and analyze and understand the data once you've found it."--Jacket.

Contents:

1. Introduction to collective intelligence

2. Making recommendations

3. Discovering groups

4. Searching and ranking

5. Optimization

6. Document filtering

7. Modeling with decision trees

8. Building price models

9. Advanced classification : kernel methods and SVMs

10. Finding independent features

11. Evolving intelligence

12. Algorithm summary

App. A. Third-party libraries

App. B. Mathematical formulas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780596529321

0596529325

9780596550684

0596550685

9780596517601

0596517602

OCLC:

183318204

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Restricted for use by site license.