Netflix Prize Leaderboard Landscape

Posted by Peter Skomoroch on February 26th 2007 to Netflixprize

Netflix recently extended the leaderboard to display more than the top 40 contenders. I submitted an entry last week using a crude algorithm just to try out the submission process, and it looks like that put me in 270th place:

270 Pete Skomoroch 0.9309 2.15 2/24/2007 3:51

Here’s a quick look at the competition based on the leaderboard data (these charts only cover the progress prize contenders as shown on the leaderboard today). You can see the impact of Simon Funk and Timely Development releasing source code for an SVD algorithm in the middle hump of the RMSE chart (lower RMSE is better): rmse

It looks like there are around 250 people in the running who have submitted in the last 40 days:

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This is my first wordpress post, so the blog will be a bit rough around the edges until I get up to speed. More to come…

5 Responses to “Netflix Prize Leaderboard Landscape”

  1. Mo
    February 28th, 2007 | 7:12 pm

    Haha, plotting in Excel is for wimps and little girls.

  2. Peter Skomoroch
    February 28th, 2007 | 11:01 pm

    Come on mo. I thought I would start this blog off with some “old-school” data analysis… Excel can’t be beat for making a chart using copy and paste :)

    You’re just mad because you know I’m right:

    http://moisms.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/zzz-for-15-mins

  3. markdown shin
    March 2nd, 2007 | 6:35 am

    dude, this is some sweet shiznit. wrangle this shiz to the ground.

  4. K-bar
    March 2nd, 2007 | 12:24 pm

    Pete Skomoroch is the smartest guy!

  5. Michael Mayfield
    June 26th, 2007 | 5:32 pm

    soooo helpful. thanks so much!

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