[jira] [Updated] (SPARK-20011) inconsistent terminology in als api docs and tutorial

["Sean Owen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-20011?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Sean Owen updated SPARK-20011:
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    Priority: Trivial  (was: Minor)

Yes, these are the same thing. go ahead.

> inconsistent terminology in als api docs and tutorial
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-20011
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-20011
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: MLlib
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
>            Reporter: chris snow
>            Priority: Trivial
>
> https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-collaborative-filtering.html :
> bq. rank is the number of latent factors in the model.
> https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.mllib.recommendation.ALS$ :
> bq. rank - number of features to use
> As a noob to ALS, I found this confusing.  Maybe the api docs could state:
> bq. rank - number of features to use (also referred to as the number of latent factors)
> I'm happy to send in a PR.



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