Show HN: Github repo recommendation service

Show HN: Github repo recommendation service(woolam.org)

39 points by clay 14 years ago | 8 comments

espeed 14 years ago |

It looks like it's just returning my watched repos -- what type of recommendation algorithm is it running?

clay 14 years ago | |

It might service some of your watched repos because of data quality issues. It uses a very basic nearest neighbor shared item set model. I'm definitely planning on improving the quality of the results in the near future.

espeed 14 years ago | | |

Try loading the data into Neo4j and running Gremlin on it (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki).

Examples...

Multi-Item Based Recommendation https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/XlGGdsSedVw/7pCPqghA84...

Recommendation engine https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neo4j/_dnyanUSmtk/eDhJ6rjNCn...

aidanfeldman 14 years ago | | |

There were a few interesting repos in there I hadn't heard of - nice work!

pathdependent 14 years ago |

Coincidentally, I'm building a github recommendation service as a SNA research project. You may be aware, but for those who are not, GitHub actually had a NetFlix-style recommendation contest in 2009.

https://github.com/blog/466-the-2009-github-contest

clay 14 years ago | |

That's awesome. I didn't know about that.

nowarninglabel 14 years ago |

Neat in concept, but mostly useless in that it recommended pretty much all projects that I have zero interest in (javascript/coffeescript stuff), which is odd considering I'm not watching any Javascript projects, or at least I don't think I am. It made a couple of shell recommendations, one for IE which I would never touch, one for Spark which I already have installed, and one for Gitflow. Gitflow seems neat though, so I guess one good recommendation might have been worth the rest of the noise?

andrewhubbs 14 years ago |

This is cool.