IBM Israel Research Seminars

The KDD Cup is the most prominent yearly data mining/modeling competition. This year it was associated with the Netflix $1M Challenge --- using the same data, but to address different modeling challenges.

In total over 70 teams participated in the Cup this year, and our teams won one of the two tasks and came third on the other.
For more: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/Netflix-KDD-Cup-2007.html

We will briefly describe the Netflix Challenge and the KDD Cup tasks, and then discuss our approaches to both tasks and the keys to our success.