New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Andrew Palumbo
The new book, "Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce" has been released. Written by Mahout committers Dmitriy Lyubimov and Andrew Palumbo, this book covers previously undocumented features of Mahout releases 0.10 and 0.11. For more information please see the announcement page: http://www.weatheringthro

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread zerocold zerocold
Well done Andrew! 2016-02-25 14:04 GMT+01:00 Andrew Palumbo : > The new book, "Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce" has been released. Written > by Mahout committers Dmitriy Lyubimov and Andrew Palumbo, this book covers > previously undocumented features of Mahout releases 0.10 and 0.11. > For more

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread mario . alemi
put in the basket On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Andrew Palumbo wrote: > The new book, "Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce" has been released. Written > by Mahout committers Dmitriy Lyubimov and Andrew Palumbo, this book covers > previously undocumented features of Mahout releases 0.10 and 0.

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Peng Zhang
Looking forward to it for a long time. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 25, 2016, at 22:07, mario.al...@gmail.com wrote: > > put in the basket > >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Andrew Palumbo wrote: >> >> The new book, "Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce" has been released. Written >> by Ma

Re: Algorithms of prediction

2016-02-25 Thread Peyman Mohajerian
You can use a classifier in mahout and you aren't limited to mahout in hadoop. On Feb 24, 2016 11:58 PM, wrote: > Hi guys, > I want to predict churners at orange(the customers that want to abandon > the operator).Thus, i have to use mahout since we are using hadoop > yet I am new in machine learn

RE: Algorithms of prediction

2016-02-25 Thread mondher.hentati
Hi, Thank you for your answer What other tools you advise me to use? Do you recommend Rhadoop? Cordialement, Mondher Hentati -Message d'origine- De : Peyman Mohajerian [mailto:mohaj...@gmail.com] Envoyé : jeudi 25 février 2016 15:46 À : user@mahout.apache.org Objet : Re: Algorithms of p

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Pavan K Narayanan
Andrew, can you please attach table of contents if you don't mind. On Feb 25, 2016 8:05 AM, "Andrew Palumbo" wrote: > The new book, "Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce" has been released. Written > by Mahout committers Dmitriy Lyubimov and Andrew Palumbo, this book covers > previously undocumented f

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Suneel Marthi
You can see the TOC on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Apache-Mahout-MapReduce-Dmitriy-Lyubimov/dp/1523775785 On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Pavan K Narayanan < pavan.naraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrew, can you please attach table of contents if you don't mind. > On Feb 25, 2016 8:05 AM, "Andr

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread scott cote
Suneel and others: Anyone of ya’ll want to come to DFW Data Science sometime this summer and give a talk? You can promote the book. You would be following on the heals of a couple of talks regarding deep learning and search engines. Here is the url for the user group: http://www.meetup.com/DF

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Suneel Marthi
It does give u TOC when u 'Look Inside'. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Pavan K Narayanan < pavan.naraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > I checked both links, they have only front and back cover of the book. No > table of contents > On Feb 25, 2016 9:57 AM, "Suneel Marthi" wrote: > >> You can see the

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Suneel Marthi
Thanks Scott for the invite. @apalumbo @Dmitriy @PatFerrel ??? On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:19 AM, scott cote wrote: > Suneel and others: > > Anyone of ya’ll want to come to DFW Data Science sometime this summer and > give a talk? You can promote the book. > You would be following on the heals

Re: Algorithms of prediction

2016-02-25 Thread Ted Dunning
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:52 AM, wrote: > Thank you for your answer > What other tools you advise me to use? > Do you recommend Rhadoop? > Try h2o instead. Good R interface. Decent model building.

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Andrew Palumbo
As Suneel said, you can see the table of contents when you "Look Inside" the book on the Amazon page. The "Look Inside" feature does not seem to be available on some Mobile browsers. Thanks. From: Suneel Marthi Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 10:26

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Andrew Palumbo
Thanks very much for the invite Scott. From: Suneel Marthi Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 10:35 AM To: user@mahout.apache.org Subject: Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book Thanks Scott for the invite. @apalumbo @Dmitriy @PatFerrel ??? On Thu, Feb 25, 201

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread scott cote
Consider it an open invitation. We also show the event on Periscope - you can watch if you want to “see” how the events run . Thanks for the work you do. Regards, SCott > On Feb 25, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Andrew Palumbo wrote: > > Thanks very much for the invite Scott. > > __

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Pat Ferrel
This is awesome news! Can’t wait to get a copy. Congratulations Dmitriy and Andrew. Also thanks for the invitation Scott. I feel like Mahout has gone through a rebirth apropos of the Samsara name and it’s time people hear about it. On Feb 25, 2016, at 8:45 AM, scott cote wrote: Consider i

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Andrew Musselman
Yes congrats guys! I got my Kindle copy and it looks great. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Pat Ferrel wrote: > This is awesome news! Can’t wait to get a copy. Congratulations Dmitriy > and Andrew. > > Also thanks for the invitation Scott. > > I feel like Mahout has gone through a rebirth apro

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread FRANCISCO XAVIER SUMBA TORAL
Awesome!! This book it’s mostly about Samsara. I’ll buy it. BTW do you know if there is an update of Mahout in Action? or Is it worth to buy now? It has not changed too much mahout or the approach its same with the actual implementation of mahout.

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Suneel Marthi
The Mahout project has diverged from 'Mahout in Action' since Mahout 0.7 release in 2012. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:30 PM, FRANCISCO XAVIER SUMBA TORAL < xavier.sumb...@ucuenca.ec> wrote: > Awesome!! This book it’s mostly about Samsara. I’ll buy it. BTW do you > know if there is an update of Ma

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Ted Dunning
The project has moved in various ways since MiA was first published, but just covering Samsara leaves a lot of recommendation code that needs to be covered. There is room for another book. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Suneel Marthi wrote: > The Mahout project has diverged from 'Mahout in

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Suneel Marthi
I have talked with @Pat offline about a book on the new Recommenders. Definitely calls for another book. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > The project has moved in various ways since MiA was first published, but > just covering Samsara leaves a lot of recommendation code tha

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
Yes Amazon has the "look inside" feature which is supposed to show the entire content. The print version has been a bit inconsistent at that (it occasionally skips a page or two from TOC) but the kindle version always shows full preface and toc. We are unfortunately not allowed to redistributed an

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Pat Ferrel
I’m working on something, @Dmitriy mentioned that we might be able to add to the second edition of the Beyond Mapreduce book, also looking at a free self-published PDF book. Not sure how much it helps to have paper or a publisher behind promotion. Any thoughts are welcome In the meantime it wil

Re: Algorithms of prediction

2016-02-25 Thread Keith Aumiller
I use h2o and it's good with an easy interface to learn for a new user. Even without the R libraries On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:52 AM, wrote: > > > Thank you for your answer > > What other tools you advise me to use? > > Do you recommend Rh

Re: New Mahout "Samsara" Book

2016-02-25 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
For the purposes of this book (and otherwise too, as far as i know) "Samsara" is a release code name, defined as 0.10 and after. That includes all new code that happened after that, and the code that is still not deprectated (although most of MapReduce code is, by now, as evidenced by MAHOUT-1510)