Looking for someone with experience integrating content-based approaches in Mahout

[Eric Hilberg <eh...@dynasonix.com>]

Apologies in advance for the non-technical post, but hopefully this is the right audience for it.

We're looking to get in touch with someone (or someones) who's interested in helping a young startup accelerate our work with Mahout.  We're looking at content rather than user or item based approaches, and would love to get in touch with anyone with experience using Mahout for this.  If you are, or know of someone who is, interested and experienced in Mahout and looking for a challenging project, please do get in touch.  In fact, even if you're not looking for a new project, we'd still love to talk to you!  For the sake of saving the entire list from having to look at responses, please email me directly rather than reply to the list.

Best,

Eric
ehilberg@dynasonix.com

Re: Looking for someone with experience integrating content-based approaches in Mahout

[Isabel Drost <is...@apache.org>]

On 20.10.2011 Ted Dunning wrote:
> THere is also the jobs@apache.org mailing list which is less focussed but
> might hit some folks with the right expertise that this list does not.

And there is https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/professional-support.html which 
lists companies and people that declared themselves as willing and capable of 
helping Mahout users.

Isabel

Re: Looking for someone with experience integrating content-based approaches in Mahout

[Ted Dunning <te...@gmail.com>]

THere is also the jobs@apache.org mailing list which is less focussed but
might hit some folks with the right expertise that this list does not.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Sean Owen <sr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you're looking for consulting I bet someone could come out of the
> woodwork, privately -- might say where you're based geographically.
>

Re: Looking for someone with experience integrating content-based approaches in Mahout

[Sean Owen <sr...@gmail.com>]

(Copying the list with some general comments on purpose.)

To the extent you have general ideas to discuss (or specific bugs to
work through) I think you're welcome to ask on the list and see how
much mileage you get out of volunteered info.

For example I can tell you that I think 99% of the problem you're
trying to solve is just to define what it means for two users or items
to be similar. The best corner of the project to look at for that are
clustering / classifications "vectorization" support. That leads to
one form of answer: if you can turn the things into vectors, you can
compute a similarity.

If you're looking for consulting I bet someone could come out of the
woodwork, privately -- might say where you're based geographically.

Sean

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Eric Hilberg <eh...@dynasonix.com> wrote:
> Apologies in advance for the non-technical post, but hopefully this is the right audience for it.
>
> We're looking to get in touch with someone (or someones) who's interested in helping a young startup accelerate our work with Mahout.  We're looking at content rather than user or item based approaches, and would love to get in touch with anyone with experience using Mahout for this.  If you are, or know of someone who is, interested and experienced in Mahout and looking for a challenging project, please do get in touch.  In fact, even if you're not looking for a new project, we'd still love to talk to you!  For the sake of saving the entire list from having to look at responses, please email me directly rather than reply to the list.
>
> Best,
>
> Eric
> ehilberg@dynasonix.com
>
>