How Spotify Uses Data to Identify Your Next Favorite Song

Nov 10, 2019

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Just a short few days ago, I was discussing the impact of recommender systems with some students on a course I’m teaching.

Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, and many other online services, use our data to suggest other products we might like.

Is this helpful, or does it serve only to entrench our existing preferences?

How do we discover anything truly new or unex…

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