How do you create predictive models in Hadoop?

["Adaryl \"Bob\" Wakefield, MBA" <ad...@hotmail.com>]

I’ve been working with predictive models for three years now. My models have been single threaded and written against data in a non distributed environment. I’m not certain how to translate my skills to Hadoop. Mahout yes but I don’t know Java as I tend to work with Python (as do a lot of my colleagues). I guess what I’m asking is, do predictive models need to be written as map reduce jobs?

B.