Introduction

[Daniel Nee <ne...@googlemail.com>]

Hi all,

I've been following Hadoop and the Mahout project for a while now and
I thought I should introduce myself. I'm Daniel Nee, I am a master's
student at University College London studying Computational Statistics
and Machine Learning. Before that I did my undergraduate in Computer
Science at the University of Southampton. I'm keen to help out the
project wherever I can, whether that is coding up new algorithms,
improving documentation/descriptions of the techniques, etc.

One algorithm I am interested in working on is a map/reduce version of
fitting a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) via EM. I noticed at least one
person was interested in implementing this for GSoC. I am happy to
provide code/ideas if they do decided to take it further whether as
part of GSoC or as their own project. Due to commitments to my
master's I cannot participate in GSoC myself. The standard
non-parallel EM algorithm for GMM's is pretty straightforward to
implement and I think I have a pretty good idea on how to implement a
map/reduce version.

As a final note, I was wondering if anyone else will be attending the
2nd UK Hadoop User Group
(http://huguk.eventwax.com/hadoop-user-group-uk-2)?

Dan

Re: Introduction

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

Having you guys work together is entirely in keeping and compatible with
both the open source ideas and google summer of code ideas.

So, Daniel, don't imagine that this idea is "taken".  Your suggestions and
code (parallel or sequential) are highly valued.

2009/4/2 Yifan Wang <he...@gmail.com>

>
> I am Yifan. Glad to see someone has the same idea here.
> I have submitted a proposal of GSOC 2009 for the Mixture
> Model via EM.

re: Introduction

[Yifan Wang <he...@gmail.com>]

Hi Daniel

I am Yifan. Glad to see someone has the same idea here. 
I have submitted a proposal of GSOC 2009 for the Mixture 
Model via EM. I have basic knowledge of the Mixture Model
Of EM algorithm. Hope to discuss with you about the algorithm
in the future.

Best Regards
Yifan



-----邮件原件-----
发件人: Daniel Nee [mailto:nee.daniel@googlemail.com] 
发送时间: 2009年4月2日 16:53
收件人: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org
主题: Introduction

Hi all,

I've been following Hadoop and the Mahout project for a while now and
I thought I should introduce myself. I'm Daniel Nee, I am a master's
student at University College London studying Computational Statistics
and Machine Learning. Before that I did my undergraduate in Computer
Science at the University of Southampton. I'm keen to help out the
project wherever I can, whether that is coding up new algorithms,
improving documentation/descriptions of the techniques, etc.

One algorithm I am interested in working on is a map/reduce version of
fitting a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) via EM. I noticed at least one
person was interested in implementing this for GSoC. I am happy to
provide code/ideas if they do decided to take it further whether as
part of GSoC or as their own project. Due to commitments to my
master's I cannot participate in GSoC myself. The standard
non-parallel EM algorithm for GMM's is pretty straightforward to
implement and I think I have a pretty good idea on how to implement a
map/reduce version.

As a final note, I was wondering if anyone else will be attending the
2nd UK Hadoop User Group
(http://huguk.eventwax.com/hadoop-user-group-uk-2)?

Dan

Re: Introduction

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

On Thursday 02 April 2009, Daniel Nee wrote:
> I've been following Hadoop and the Mahout project for a while now and
> I thought I should introduce myself. I'm Daniel Nee, I am a master's
> student at University College London studying Computational Statistics
> and Machine Learning. 

Welcome Daniel. Nice to have you here.


> As a final note, I was wondering if anyone else will be attending the 
> 2nd UK Hadoop User Group
> (http://huguk.eventwax.com/hadoop-user-group-uk-2)?

I will be there. Will arrive in London the day before the meetup and will 
leave the other day in the evening.

Isabel

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