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Traditionally, recommender systems present recommendations in ranked lists to the user. In content- and knowledge-based recommender systems, these lists are often sorted on some notion of similarity with a query, ideal product specification, or sample product. However, a lot of information is lost in this way, since two products with the same similarity to a query can differ from this query on a completely different set of product characteristics. When using a two dimensional map based visualization of the recommendations, it is possible to retain part of this information. In the map, we can then position recommendations that are similar to each other in the same area of the map.
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Kagie, M., van Wezel, M., Groenen, P.J. (2011). Map Based Visualization of Product Catalogs. In: Ricci, F., Rokach, L., Shapira, B., Kantor, P. (eds) Recommender Systems Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85820-3_17
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