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Netflix uses various data sources to power its recommendation system. These include ratings and usage data from subscribers, popularity metrics computed hourly and daily, streaming data like duration and device, titles added to queues, and external data on box office and reviews. Different machine learning models generate personalized recommendations for Netflix's homepage based on a user's interactions and attributes. This system allows Netflix to adapt recommendations as new users join and consume content.

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Netflix uses various data sources to power its recommendation system. These include ratings and usage data from subscribers, popularity metrics computed hourly and daily, streaming data like duration and device, titles added to queues, and external data on box office and reviews. Different machine learning models generate personalized recommendations for Netflix's homepage based on a user's interactions and attributes. This system allows Netflix to adapt recommendations as new users join and consume content.

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Recommendations are shown when you log in into Netflix. The TV shows and movies shown are
recommended for you to watch. This is a feature that tells you what you would probably watch
because of what you have watched before or what is trending throughout the world. Netflix is
letting their audience know what they like based on their interest. They know these things
because of the data they gathered. The data sources for the Netflix recommendations,
according to Netflix Technology Blog 2017b, are

 Ratings from its members which are currently being updated every day.
- People who are subscribed to Netflix who rates movies and TV shows show up in
the recommendations.
 Usage of popularity metric, which are computed hourly, weekly, and daily. They also
examine the geographical members by similar metrics.
- Most TV shows and movies which are popular in other countries and being watched
by audience is also recommended.
 Stream related data such as the duration, time of playing, type of device, and day of the
week.
- People who watch TV shows and movies for a long time, The use of other devices, as
well as the ones who watch each day.
 The pattern and the titles that the subscribers are adding to their queues each day.
 All the data related to their catalog such as director, actor, genre, ratings and reviews
some different platform.
- They also relate the recommendations to people such as the director, actors, or the
genre of the movie. They also use the ratings and reviews of other people.
 Social data of users which can extract social features that are related to them and their
friends.
- TV shows and movies that are watched by people who are related to them such as
friends and family can also get recommendations.
 The search related texts information by Netflix subscribers or remembers.
 External data from box office information, performance, and critics reviews.
 Other features such as demographics, culture, language, and other temporal data.
At a video streaming service, the decision of the recommender system is to show which videos
to show to a particular individual in their homepage after they log in to their profile on a device.
Different kinds of machine learning models are being used to generate a personalized
recommendations for the different parts of the Netflix homepage. Another is the important
distinction whether the data contain only the user-item interactions or additional information
like user, item, or contextual attributes and information regarding the user-item interaction.
These are what Netflix has used and issued in the collection of data to be able to change the
algorithm of recommendations when a new user has logged in.
https://towardsdatascience.com/netflix-recommender-system-a-big-data-case-study-
19cfa6d56ff5
https://www.themarcomavenue.com/blog/a-case-study-on-netflixs-marketing-strategies-
tactics/
https://research.netflix.com/publication/%20Deep%20Learning%20for%20Recommender
%20Systems%3A%20A%20Netflix%20Case%20Study

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