Hi, On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:29:49PM +0000, Andrew Palumbo wrote: > I think that https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1856 , a solid > framework for new algorithms will go A long way towards helping out new users > understand how easy it is to add algorithms. There has been significant work > on this issue already merged to master with a fine OLS example including > statistical tests for Autocorrelation and Heteroskedasticity. Trevor G. has > been heading up the framework effort, which is still in development, and will > continue to be throughout 0.13.x releases (and hopefully added to in 0.14.x as > well).
No need to be sorry here, from a first glimpse at the issue it does look useful. > > I believe that having the framework in place will both make make Mahout More > intuitive for new users and developers to write algorithms and pipelines, as > well as to provide a set of canned algos to those who are looking for > something off-the-shelf. Are there things within or on top of that framework that interested users could help out with? > Just wanted to get that into the conversation. Thank you for that. Isabel