This looks good. What I was expecting though was a low price phone which match the specs on my phone. I know those phones are out there, but I would like to sort by price (so that I can find cheapest), OS (android/windows/ios), manufacturer.
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#12If I type my phone "Galaxy Note 4", I get it compared to the "Galaxy Note4" (missing space), which has different battery/screen/weight specs. http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/similar_to_4245
Thanks, I fixed it.
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#13This looks good. What I was expecting though was a low price phone which match the specs on my phone. I know those phones are out there, but I would like to sort by price (so that I can find cheapest), OS (android/windows/ios), manufacturer.
Sorting and filtering is pretty much the main functionality of Product Chart. It can be done directly on the smartphone chart:
http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/
The similarity finder is a new addon. I want to find out if "distance based on specs" is an alternative to the usual "customers who bought x also bought y".
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#14Good idea.
However, I was expecting that a Xperia Z1 Compact would be compared with an Xperia Z3 Compact, or at least between similar phones.
It is twice the price and twice the max SD card capacity, but besides that, I think they are quite similar: http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/4597_vs_4674 http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Sony-Xper...
Refine the comparing algorithm and it will be awesome.
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#15Cool app!, any chance you could share the dataset?.
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#16I can't find iPhone original. Ok just kidding. I found it.
Hey want to talk about how you built this phone finder site on Glitch Club? http://glitchclub.com/?glitchnow
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#17Comparing specs doesn't give the whole picture though - http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/similar_to_4714
I assure you, the Lumia 925 is more high end than the Moto G.
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#19Your euclidean distance formula is kind of wrong (at least on the site). The units of each term are incompatible so cannot be added together directly, they all should be normalized with a weight factor. A sensible weight factor would be the inverse of the standard deviation of the specific term.
Alternatively you could use the inverse of the covariance matrix as the metric tensor of the properties since there could be quite a few correlations.
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#20Your euclidean distance formula is kind of wrong (at least on the site). The units of each term are incompatible so cannot be added together directly, they all should be normalized with a weight factor. A sensible weight factor would be the inverse of the standard deviation of the specific term. Alternatively you could use the inverse of the covariance matrix as the metric tensor of the properties since there could b…
The values that go into the formula are normalized, but not weighted. So a similar screen size is "worth" as much as a similar weight. If you find examples, where weighted results would perform better, let me know. You can compare the given phone to other phones by clicking them in the list on the right.