Beyond “Just” Recommendations

Onkar Dalal7-September-2012

What do I cook for dinner tonight?

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Moods or Time constraints??

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Moods or Time constraints??

Can we do better?

Beyond “Just”

Explore

Diverse?

Diverse-ER

Diverse-EST

Backend?

Backend?

Backend?

Beyond “Just” Recommendations

Beyond “Just” Recommendations

• More control to the User

Beyond “Just” Recommendations

• More control to the user

• Increase user engagement

Beyond “Just” Recommendations

• More control to the user• Increase user engagement

• Better User-Experience

About Project

• Punchfork Inc., Palo Alto

• Tools Used: PythonMongoDB Gephi/NetworkX Flask HTML (Twitter Bootstrap)

Onkar Dalalonkar@stanford.edu

• Ph.D. Computational Math, Stanford University Optimization Algorithms, Sparse Graphical Models

• M.S. Statistics, Stanford University

Excited to use large data-sets to answer interesting questions