Re: Haters get Love too

2015-11-03 Thread Peter Jaumann
Fascinating!!! Not too surprising really!!! On Nov 3, 2015 6:31 PM, "Suneel Marthi" wrote: > Thanks Pat, very interesting indeed. > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Pat Ferrel wrote: > > > A colleague of mine just build a MAP@k precision evaluator for the > Mahout > > based cooccurrence recomme

Re: matrix inversion in plan ?

2015-10-04 Thread Peter Jaumann
This should be done with a matrix solver indeed!!! On Oct 4, 2015 11:53 AM, "Ted Dunning" wrote: > > > It is almost certain that starting with an inversion is a serious error. > > Are you sure you don't want a matrix solver instead? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 3, 2015, at 20:09, go can

Re: [Edit] Approach for Clustering Data

2014-02-17 Thread Peter Jaumann
Bikash, As Ted pointed out already.. You can cluster on all variables except your customer_id. That's your identifier. Customers within a cluster are 'similar'; how similar depends on the fidelity of your clustering. The clustering algorithm uses (you'll choose) some kind of distance, or simila