RecSys 2013  November 6th, 2013 1 comment  AcmRecsysIt has been
3 years since I attended my last RecSys and last week I went
again to that conference in Hong Kong. I came back home with
lots of useful insights although to get those gems I had to go
through lots of boring to death presentations. Hey guys,
presenting to an audience doesn’t mean cut and pasting from your
latex article directly into your beamer presentation. You have
to think about how to communicate to an audience. And don’t tell
me it’s about algorithms and complex mathematics, so it was
Harald Steck’s from Netflix and it was very pedagogical. Next
year make sure you think in your audience before reporting your
research.  This is my personal and biased review of the
conference. It’s mainly what I found interesting and what it
could be easily deployed at my current employer, Softonic.  On
Saturday we had an excellent tutorial about Learning To Rank for
Recommender Systems by Alex, Linas and Shi. Here I’m completely
biased because I’ve worked wit