Pig can only make the implementation of map-reduce easier, the numerical computation can been done in UDF. And piglet is a DSL upon pig latin which make pig support loop. http://github.com/iconara/piglet
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see pig as useful for data preparation, but for any numerical tasks, it > is > likely to be completely hopeless. > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Glad to hear here that mahout devs are interested in pig. Actually I > > believe > > pig is very helpful when you want to quickly implement a prototype of > > machine learning algorithms. And Pig has java API, it is easy to > integrate > > pig script with java. Maybe we can start with implementing NB using pig > > first. > > > > > -- > Ted Dunning, CTO > DeepDyve > -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang
