Listening to your users: Inferring Affinities and Interests based on actual time spent vs clicks or pageloads

Personalized recommendations rely on the idea the you know the interests of your audience. In absence of explicit feedback, interests are generally derived from clickstream data: session and event (e.g. click) data. But given that sessions can be short lived (bounce) and clicks can be unintentional, they are unlikely to reflect true interests of your audience if you simply … Continued