Re: Adapters for mahout inputs .... anyone working on this?

2014-02-22 Thread Gokhan Capan
I'm personally positive on this. Could you give an example code snippet that shows how the usage is going to be? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2014, at 5:37, Jay Vyas jayunit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi dead. Sure I will take a look. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Ted Dunning

Re: Adapters for mahout inputs .... anyone working on this?

2014-02-22 Thread Robin East
Various existing frameworks like R or python/sklearn already have existing interfaces so would be good to follow some existing patterns. I personally find sklearn's transform/fit/predict pattern very easy to use and understand. Sent from my iPhone On 22 Feb 2014, at 09:15, Gokhan Capan

Re: Adapters for mahout inputs .... anyone working on this?

2014-02-22 Thread Ted Dunning
Robin, This is a great example of how the problem is a bit harder for Mahout. Mnay of the large datasets of interest will not fit in memory. That means that mixed memory and disk formats are important in this flow which also makes API's more complicated. On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:12 AM,

Re: Adapters for mahout inputs .... anyone working on this?

2014-02-22 Thread Jay Vyas
Yes it will be tricky. But that said, i think we should be able to simply change the existing parsers to be more flexible , to accomodate at least slightly more diverse inputs. For example, variable columns in CSV etc...

Re: Adapters for mahout inputs .... anyone working on this?

2014-02-21 Thread Ted Dunning
Great idea. Hard to do well. Would it be possible for you to try to build a picture of all the pieces that need to be connected before you start building connectors and converters? On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Jay Vyas jayunit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi mahout. Was thinking about building

Re: Adapters for mahout inputs .... anyone working on this?

2014-02-21 Thread Jay Vyas
Hi dead. Sure I will take a look. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: Great idea. Hard to do well. Would it be possible for you to try to build a picture of all the pieces that need to be connected before you start building connectors and converters?