I have updated the documentation per this thread, which will soon improve this page: http://lucene.apache.org/mahout/taste.html
Is this what you're after? it has some walkthroughs and how-tos. What else? On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Matthew Runo <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd love to have a better "Taste for dummies" getting started section. I too > am on OS X, and with this thread can finally compile Taste, but the > instructions are still vauge (to me). I'd love to help, but I think it'd be > /great/ to have something really easy to follow along with, ala.. > > 1. Create a file in the format, userId,itemID. Call it "input.txt". > 2. Create a class.. <code for class that reads in input.txt> > 3. How to build mahout > 4. How to build taste > 5. instructions for running the class > 6.... > > I think this would help a lot of people. > > Thanks for your time! > > Matthew Runo > Software Engineer, Zappos.com > [email protected] - 702-943-7833 > > On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:25 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > >> I can take care of it shortly when I'm back. The only tweak I'd make >> is that 'step 0' is just to obtain the distro, which is not >> necessarily done via SVN and in fact won't be done that way for most >> people. >> >> I also see that my 'how to roll your own server' section is now out of >> date too and needs fixing. >> > >
