Netflix’s algorithms for recommending movies to customers might not be perfect, but it isn’t for lack of trying. As Netflix Senior Data Scientist Mohammad Sabah described at the Hadoop Summit on Wednesday, the company is capturing and analyzing an incredible amount of data to try and figure out what you want to watch next. It’s important work: already, Sabah said, 75 percent of users select movies based on the company’s recommendations, and Netflix wants to make that number even higher. Read the full story at GigaOM.