[CONF] Apache Mahout > Mahout Wiki

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Space: Apache Mahout (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT)
Page: Mahout Wiki (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Mahout+Wiki)


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Apache Mahout is a new Apache TLP project to create scalable, machine learning algorithms under the Apache license. It is related to other Apache Lucene projects and integrates well with Solr.

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h2. General
[Overview] -- Mahout? What's that supposed to be?

[Quickstart] -- learn how to quickly setup Apache Mahout for your project.

[FAQ] -- Frequent questions encountered on the mailing lists.

[Developer Resources] -- overview of the Mahout development infrastructure.

[How To Contribute] -- get involved with the Mahout community.

[How To Become A Committer] -- become a member of the Mahout development community.

[Hadoop|http://hadoop.apache.org] -- several of our implementations depend on Hadoop.

[Machine Learning Open Source Software|http://mloss.org/software/] -- other projects implementing Open Source Machine Learning libraries.

[TODO]

h2. Community

[Who we are|Who We Are] -- who are the developers behind Apache Mahout?

[Books, Tutorials, Talks, Articles, News, etc. on Mahout|Books Tutorials and Talks]

[Issue Tracker] -- see what features people are working on, submit patches and file bugs.

[Source Code (SVN)|https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mahout/] -- [Fisheye|http://fisheye6.atlassian.com/browse/mahout] -- download the Mahout source code from svn.

[Mailing lists|Mailing Lists] -- links to our mailing lists and archived design and algorithm discussions, maybe your questions was answered there already?

[Version Control] -- where we track our code.

[Powered By Mahout] -- who is using Mahout in production?

[Professional Support] -- who is offering professional support for Mahout?

[Mahout and Google Summer of Code|GSOC]  -- All you need to know about Mahout and GSoC.


[Glossary of commonly used terms|Glossary]

h2. Installation/Setup

[System Requirements|System Requirements] -- what do you need to run Mahout?

[Quickstart] -- get started with Mahout, run the examples and get pointers to further resources.

[Downloads] -- a list of Mahout releases.

[Download and installation|BuildingMahout] -- build Mahout from the sources.

[Mahout on Amazon's EC2 Service|Mahout on Amazon EC2] -- run Mahout on Amazon's EC2.

[Mahout on Amazon's EMR|Mahout on Elastic MapReduce] -- Run Mahout on Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce

[Integrating Mahout into an Application|MahoutIntegration] -- integrate Mahout's capabilities in your application.


h2. Implementation Background

h3. Requirements and Design

[Matrix and Vector Needs] -- requirements for Mahout vectors.

[Collection(De-)Serialization]

h3. Collections and Algorithms

Learn more about [mahout-collections], containers for efficient storage of primitive-type data and open hash tables.

Learn more about the [Algorithms] discussed and employed by Mahout.

Learn more about the [Mahout recommender implementation|Recommender Documentation].

h3. Utilities

This section describes tools that might be useful for working with Mahout.

[Creating Vectors] -- Mahout's algorithms operate on vectors. Learn more on how to generate these from raw data.
[Viewing Result] -- How to visualize the result of your trained algorithms.

h3. Data

[Collections] -- To try out and test Mahout's algorithms you need training data. We are always looking for new training data collections.

h3. Benchmarks

[Mahout Benchmarks]

h2. Committer's Resources

* [Testing] -- Information on test plans and ideas for testing

h3. Project Resources

* [Dealing with Third Party Dependencies not in Maven|Thirdparty Dependencies]
* [How To Update The Website]
* [Patch Check List]
* [How To Release|http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/How+to+release]

h3. Additional Resources

* [Apache Machine Status|http://monitoring.apache.org/status/] \- Check to see if SVN, other resources are available.
* [Committer's FAQ|http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html]
* [Apache Dev|http://www.apache.org/dev/]


h2. How To Edit This Wiki

How to edit this Wiki

This Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:

* Create an account by clicking the "Login" link at the top of any page, and picking a username and password.
* Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top of the page

There are some conventions used on the Mahout wiki:

    * {noformat}+*TODO:*+{noformat} (+*TODO:*+ ) is used to denote sections that definitely need to be cleaned up.
    * {noformat}+*Mahout_(version)*+{noformat} (+*Mahout_0.2*+) is used to draw attention to which version of Mahout a feature was (or will be) added to Mahout.



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