Re: Decaying score for old preferences when using the .refresh()

2013-11-20 Thread Cassio Melo
Hi guys, thanks for sharing your experiences on this subject, really appreciated. To summarize the discussion: - The decay of old preference values might loose important historical data in cases where the user has no recent activity (Gokhan) - When using decay (or truncate preferences), the precis

Re: Thoughts and Questions on a e-Commerce Recommender System and Expired Items

2013-11-06 Thread Cassio Melo
ommendation > space > > sparse, thus making it hard to find good recommendations (ie > > recommendations which are relevent and not obsolete). If so, it might be > > worth considering simpler approaches than CF. > > > > > > Sigbjørn > > > > > >

Decaying score for old preferences when using the .refresh()

2013-11-06 Thread Cassio Melo
Assuming that most recent ratings or implicit preference data is more important than the older ones, I wonder if there is a way to decrease the importance (score) of old preference entries without having to update all previous preferences. Currently I'm fetching new preferences from time to time a

Re: Scheduled tasks in Mahout

2013-10-31 Thread Cassio Melo
arrett Strausser < > j.barrett.straus...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > You can look at : Flume, Oozie, Mesos, Chronos, Luigi. > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Ted Dunning > > wrote: > > > > > No. Scheduling is outside of

Scheduled tasks in Mahout

2013-10-30 Thread Cassio Melo
I wonder if Mahout (more precisely org.apache.mahout.cf.taste package) has any helper class to execute scheduled tasks like fetch data, compute similarity, etc. Thank you Cassio

Thoughts and Questions on a e-Commerce Recommender System and Expired Items

2013-10-22 Thread Cassio Melo
Hi all, I have a product recommendation use case for an e-commerce site and I've been playing around mahout's CF capabilities lately. I reached a point where I should ask a feedback from the community on my approach. I'm struggling to get ANY recommendation. Here's what I've done so far: 1) Coll