AAN Impulse No. 5 - "How can anthropology enrich data science and help build better recommender systems?" (by Iveta Hajdakova, Associate Director at StripePartners)
AAN Apply Club Events by The Applied Anthropology Network
Episode notes
EVER WONDERED HOW SPOTIFY, NETFLIX, AMAZON AND Co RECOMMENDS CONTENT FOR YOU?
In this #aanimpulses session Iveta Hajdakova from StripePartners talks about her paper published case study of Spotify: "Beyond User Needs - A Meaning Oriented Approach to Recommender Systems" see https://www.epicpeople.org/beyond-user-needs-meaning-oriented-approach-recommender-systems/. In her presentation, Iveta will look at 3 areas where anthropological perspectives added value to our research and recommendations:
using theory to frame the challenge,
understanding how people derive meaning from music, and
applying insight to recommender systems.
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Keywords
anthropologydigital methodsrecommender systems