Netflix Prize: Forum

I was reading an interview by the team Dinosaur Planet in

  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/theo … sage/13153

where they mention:

David L: I think Netflix has been doing a great job and that the
contest is extremely well designed and well run. My only complaint is
with that "added" data they posted (the results from the KDD cup) that
gives you a few thousand more ratings and the number of ratings each
movie seen in 2006. Probably running all our algorithms on those
additional ratings won't help that much, but it's definitely a huge
pain. I don't think they should have changed the avaliable data after
the contest started.

And the question is: Are we violating the contest rules if we use the extra data?

Last edited by sogrwig (2008-05-05 06:58:36)