"Today we’re announcing our 2009 GitHub Contest. Since the Netflix prize is now over, we figured you guys needed something to do. Here is your chance to contribute to the open source canon, make GitHub better, and possibly win some of the best prizes probably ever offered by a contest ... the problem is that we want to recommend repositories to you when you log into GitHub that you’ll love...we figured perhaps you can do this better than we can. I extracted a dataset of all the repository watches in our database – close to half a million – and withheld a sample of them. I then created a test file listing the users I held watches back from. If you can write a program to analyze our dataset and best guess the watches we held back, you win our amazing prizes."
"Today we’re announcing our 2009 GitHub Contest. Since the Netflix prize is now over, we figured you guys needed something to do. Here is your chance to contribute to the open source canon, make GitHub better, and possibly win some of the best prizes probably ever offered by a contest ... the problem is that we want to recommend repositories to you when you log into GitHub that you’ll love...we figured perhaps you can do this better than we can. I extracted a dataset of all the repository watches in our database – close to half a million – and withheld a sample of them. I then created a test file listing the users I held watches back from. If you can write a program to analyze our dataset and best guess the watches we held back, you win our amazing prizes."