RowSimilarity

2015-04-08 Thread Jonathan Seale
Hi all, I'm new to the community and Mahout. Happy to be here. :-) I have the following problem that I'm having difficulty with. I've setup an instance on Amazon with Mahout and can run some basic machine learning tasks (just testing). Now I'm trying to do a specific task and am unsure how to

Re: RowSimilarity

2015-04-08 Thread Pat Ferrel
Well first I’d ignore ratings. There are too many problems trying to normalize or understand the meaning of a rating. If you follow the rest of this advice it will ignore them anyway. Ratings were used in older recommenders but have become meaningless with recent thinking. Netflix made the idea