A prototype recommender system leveraging existing data sources — By Alessio Placitelli, Ben Miroglio, Jason Thomas, Shell Escalante and Martin Lopatka With special recognition of the development efforts of Roberto Vitillo who started this project, Mauro Doglio for massive contributions to the code base during his time at Mozilla, Florian Hartmann, who contributed efforts towards prototyping the ensemble linear…

You don’t need cash to search Google or to use Facebook, but they’re not free. We pay for these services with our attention and with our data. -Tim Wu Today, the creation of content on the web is fueled by revenue created from ad networks, that insist on increasingly more…