Let's not forget implementations of ML algorithms! I think that is one of the star attractions for working with Mahout and also makes for a nice project for the student.
On Jan 26, 2010, at 11:50 PM, Robin Anil wrote: > Greetings! Fellow GSOC alums, administrators and dear mentors, the next > edition is right here. Details are given in the link below. > > https://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d839c0b02ac15b3f > > Maybe we could identify key areas in Mahout which we need to develop apart > from the ML implementations and list it down for students to see before they > start trickling in. > > Some ideas: > Benchmarking Framework with EC2 wrappers > Commandline Console+Launcher like Hbase and hadoop > Online Tool/Query UI for Algorithms in Mahout(like CF) > > > Possible ideas(I have no idea what i am talking here but there are nice > problems to solve) > Improvements in Math? > How to tackle management of datasets? > Error Recovery if a job fails? > > > Robin
