Title
Putting recommendations on the map: visualizing clusters and relations
Abstract
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 and music selections. All the maps referenced in this paper can be found in http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/maps
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1639714.1639784
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
Keywords
DocType
Volume
recommender system,graph,clustering,visualization
Journal
abs/0906.5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.70
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emden R. Gansner11117115.32
Yifan Hu2148088.96
Stephen G. Kobourov31440122.20
Chris Volinsky44325194.44