Recommending for the World

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Justin Basilico

Talk at RecSys 2016 in Boston, MA on 2016-09-18 about how we prepared the Netflix recommendation system to for our global launch and discovered that people's tastes travel across the world. You can also read more here: http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/02/recommending-for-world.html

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