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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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CSE Seminar
By: Beck Kloss
Director, Algorithmic Recommendations
eBay
Title: eBay Recommender Systems
Abstract: Algorithmic personalization powers your favorite web experiences today from movie recommendations to tailored job suggestions. After eBay’s acquisition of Hunch in 2011, a commerce ‘taste-graph’ was constructed to represent each buyers affinity to any of the 500 million listings for sale on eBay. Learn about how eBay uses the ‘taste-graph’ in concert with machine learning, information retrieval and data science to deliver a world class commerce experience.
Bio: Beck Kloss leads the algorithmic recommendations team for eBay’s Buyer Experience group in NYC. He's worked in e-commerce, web search, and analytics roles after graduating with a MSc in Applied Statistics from NC State.
