RE: Mahout-1490 and blog

[Saikat Kanjilal <sx...@hotmail.com>]

Dmitry/Pat/Sebastien,Following up , would love some feedback and thoughts on the blog use cases, will be adding some more today as well.Thanks in advance

> From: sxk1969@hotmail.com
> To: dev@mahout.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Mahout-1490 and blog
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:54:33 -0700
> 
> First of, sincerest apologies for long absence, have had no bandwidth for past month or so to work on this, regardless finally moving this ahead, I've added a few simple examples based on adding a new column/group/type on the blog and would appreciate some feedback:
> http://mlefforts.blogspot.com/2014/04/introduction-this-proposal-will.html
> I'll keep adding more examples once I hear back from folks.Looking forward to moving this ahead.
> 
> > From: sxk1969@hotmail.com
> > To: dev@mahout.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: Mahout-1490 and blog
> > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:36:02 -0700
> > 
> > Thanks will do my best to move this along.  The next biggest effort will be to get the blog to contain use cases before any more coding can continue.
> > 
> > > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:26:08 -0700
> > > Subject: Re: Mahout-1490 and blog
> > > From: dlieu.7@gmail.com
> > > To: dev@mahout.apache.org
> > > 
> > > I will help, sure. But there's no (and cannot be) a single committer
> > > responsible for reviewing changes of this magnitude. You have started a
> > > fairly ambitious undertaking when you filed this issue. If this issue is
> > >  tackled elegantly, this would be the single biggest thing that happened to
> > > Mahout in a long time, and will immediately give this project an edge by
> > > allowing scripting out a quick and customizable end2end application. So
> > > please give it your best! :)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <sx...@hotmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'll work on these suggestions, Dmitry I noticed you assigned 1490 to
> > > > Grant, I was wondering if you are still going to have time to help our
> > > > reviewing work on this item.Thanks
> > > >
> > > > > From: andrew.musselman@gmail.com
> > > > > Subject: Re: Mahout-1490 and blog
> > > > > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:55:18 -0700
> > > > > To: dev@mahout.apache.org
> > > > >
> > > > > I agree with Dmitriy.
> > > > >
> > > > > I note also the formatting on a desktop browser could be improved(e.g.,
> > > > fixed-font code blocks), and that on my phone it looks "off."
> > > > >
> > > > > If we want to send people to this we will want to tidy things up I think.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Jun 17, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I would not bring overly complicated examples.
> > > > > > Show us how we would add a new computed column, group, aggregate, type
> > > > > > conversion manipulations, etc.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anything that helps us to understand what it is we can do in shortest
> > > > > > format possible. Current text IMO doesn't do that.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <sx...@hotmail.com>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> I will refocus the blog on concrete use cases tied into the workflow
> > > > of
> > > > > >> using a Dataframe within mahout oriented perhaps towards a set of
> > > > > >> algorithms focused on clustering, does that sound like a reasonable
> > > > first
> > > > > >> step?
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Sent from my iPhone
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>>> On Jun 17, 2014, at 6:15 PM, "Dmitriy Lyubimov" <dl...@gmail.com>
> > > > > >>> wrote:
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> This blog IMO desperately needs conrete use examples, not apis.
> > > > > >>> I would also remove R-specific examples as inconsequential.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <
> > > > sxk1969@hotmail.com>
> > > > > >>> wrote:
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>>> Hi Folks,I'm currently adding some bits to an earlier commit I had
> > > > done
> > > > > >>>> for Mahout-1490 to add a thin set of APIs around a dataframe, I was
> > > > > >> going
> > > > > >>>> to refine the blog specified here (
> > > > > >>
> > > > http://mlefforts.blogspot.com/2014/04/introduction-this-proposal-will.html
> > > > > >> )
> > > > > >>>> to include these APIs but before I put any more effort and time into
> > > > > >> this
> > > > > >>>> as well as into the code I wanted to ask if there's actual interest
> > > > in
> > > > > >> the
> > > > > >>>> developer/committer community to support this and move it into
> > > > mahout.
> > > > > >>>> Please let me know thoughts and feedback and a general direction so
> > > > > >> that I
> > > > > >>>> can either continue or redirect these efforts per the current need.
> > > > > >>>> Thanks in advance.
> > > > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
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