It more or less walks through org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.item, how it works, and the issues involved. Later I'd like for it to cover the SVD-based implementation that will be written this summer too. If you're pretty into the code already, it may not add much value.
But hey there's the whole (forthcoming) section on clustering and classification! On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tamas Jambor <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking into the distributed part of the recommendation. Sean mentioned > that there is a book Mahout in Action coming out. I had a look at the table > of content. > I've been working with recommended systems (and mahout) for quite a long > time now, I assume that chapter 2-5 wouldn't really give me anything new, so > I'd be only interested in reading chapter 6. do you think it is worth buying > the book only for chapter 6? > > Tamas >
