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How can I devise a scoring system for a competition that is more fair than straight percentages?

I am trying to come up with a method for deciding the winner from among eight student groups competing for a prize. The raw data and corresponding percentages measure participation per group in a ...
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Collaborative filtering and implicit ratings; normalization?

I want to use the time a user spends viewing an article as an implicit rating of how much the user likes the article. My question is how do I normalize this information across all users. At the ...
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Relatively normalizing values for collaborative filtering [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Relatively normalizing values for collaborative filtering I am trying to derive a formula for my collaborative algorithm problem to calculate popularity rating of an ...