User based recommender

2014-11-26 Thread Yash Patel
Dear Mahout Team, I am a student new to machine learning and i am trying to build a user based recommender using mahout. My dataset is a csv file as an input but it has many fields as text and i understand mahout needs numeric values. Can you give me a headstart as to where i should start and wh

AW: User based recommender

2014-11-26 Thread Manuel Blechschmidt
Hello Yash, checkout the following project: https://github.com/ManuelB/facebook-recommender-demo /Manuel --  Manuel Blechschmidt Mobil: +49 (0) 173 6322621 Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Yash Patel Datum:26.11.2014 20:16 (GMT+01:00) An: user@mahout.apache.org Betreff: User b

Re: User based recommender

2014-11-26 Thread parnab kumar
kindly elaborate... your requirements... your dataset fields ...and what you want to recommend to an user... Usually a set of item is recommended to an user. In your case what are your items ? The standard input is . Clearly your data is not in this format which will let you use directly the algo

Re: User based recommender

2014-11-26 Thread Pat Ferrel
Hi Yash, What exactly do you mean by “user-based” recommender? What does your data look like? What are the columns in the CSV? For collaborative filtering you will need a user-ID and an item-ID for each preference the user has expressed. Mahout has several recommenders so building one should

Re: User based recommender

2014-11-26 Thread Pat Ferrel
All very good points but note that spark-itemsimilarity may take the input directly since you specify column numbers for On Nov 26, 2014, at 11:43 AM, parnab kumar wrote: kindly elaborate... your requirements... your dataset fields ...and what you want to recommend to an user... Usually a set

Re: User based recommender

2014-11-26 Thread Yash Patel
Hello everyone, wow i am quite happy to see so many inputs from people. I apologize for not providing more details. Although this is not my complete dataset the fields i have chosen to use are: customer id - numeric item id - text postal code - text item category ´- text potential growth - text