Re: Clustering for customer segmentation

2013-08-12 Thread Ted Dunning
The tasks that you need to do include: a) group your history by user id b) extract the features you want to use from each user history c) repeat clustering and adjusting the scaling of your features until you are happy If you have a few hundred examples of customers broken down by the

RE: Clustering for customer segmentation

2013-08-12 Thread Martin, Nick
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 12:00 PM To: user@mahout.apache.org Subject: Re: Clustering for customer segmentation The tasks that you need to do include: a) group your history by user id b) extract the features you want to use from each user history c) repeat clustering and adjusting

Re: Clustering for customer segmentation

2013-08-12 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Martin, Nick nimar...@pssd.com wrote: I'd love to contribute so I'll get on JIRA and sign up for the dev@mailing list to start getting a feel for that process. Sounds like you already know the drill. Welcome!

Clustering for customer segmentation

2013-08-10 Thread Martin, Nick
Hi all, I'm new to Mahout and wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for doing customer purchase behavior clustering in Mahout. Seems most of what I encounter in online and book examples for clustering is text/document based. Basically, I'd like to be able to explore passing