mahout in action

[Tamas Jambor <ja...@googlemail.com>]

I am looking into the distributed part of the recommendation. Sean 
mentioned that there is a book Mahout in Action coming out. I had a look 
at the table of content.
I've been working with recommended systems (and mahout) for quite a long 
time now, I assume that chapter 2-5 wouldn't really give me anything 
new, so I'd be only interested in reading chapter 6. do you think it is 
worth buying the book only for chapter 6?

Tamas

Re: mahout in action

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

It more or less walks through org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.item,
how it works, and the issues involved. Later I'd like for it to cover
the SVD-based implementation that will be written this summer too. If
you're pretty into the code already, it may not add much value.

But hey there's the whole (forthcoming) section on clustering and
classification!

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tamas Jambor <ja...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am looking into the distributed part of the recommendation. Sean mentioned
> that there is a book Mahout in Action coming out. I had a look at the table
> of content.
> I've been working with recommended systems (and mahout) for quite a long
> time now, I assume that chapter 2-5 wouldn't really give me anything new, so
> I'd be only interested in reading chapter 6. do you think it is worth buying
> the book only for chapter 6?
>
> Tamas
>