Lecture:   

From Jure Leskovec Stanford 246 Mining Massive Data Sets

06-dim_redSVD&CUR.pdf

Recommender Systems  cont SVD & Netflix Challenge

References: 

From Text:  Mining Massive Data Sets by Anand Rojaraman & Jeffrey Ullman

Chapter 9   SVD

http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/node19.html

Microsoft Technical report MSR-TR-98-12 (comparison of various recommender system approaches):

     tr-98-12.pdf