Re: Marketing

2017-04-04 Thread Trevor Grant
Re name changes- definitely not in love with the idea. In my experience there are two main segments of data scientists when opening a conversation about Apache Mahout: 1) "We don't use map reduce" 2) "I've never heard of it" 2a) "I don't understand math, I just blindly fire 'machine learning'

Re: Marketing

2017-03-29 Thread Andrew Evans
The issue could be competition better grounded in Spark like ND4J and the increased popularity of Python. Name changes are really difficult. If you think that you have improved over your recent iteration and moved to a more competitive platform, then it would be a good idea. Otherwise, try to

Re: Marketing

2017-03-29 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
One more thing: what was really helpful in spreading the word in the early days was collecting real user stories: who achieved what with Mahout. Could be helpful for the new multi backend version as well. Imagine quotes like "we've successfully used Mahout on $insertBackendHere to solve

Re: Marketing

2017-03-29 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
That is an awesome second interpretation. Having voted on the original name I'm 100% biased so take my opinion with a huge grain of salt: on the one hand I think name changes are over rated (anyone remember ethereal?), on the other hand IMHO Mahout is a fairly strong brand representing machine

Re: Marketing

2017-03-25 Thread Pat Ferrel
2017 7:22 PM (GMT-08:00) To: user@mahout.apache.org Cc: Mahout Dev List <d...@mahout.apache.org> Subject: Re: Marketing On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com> wrote: > maybe we should drop the name Mahout altogether. I have been told that there is a co

RE: Marketing

2017-03-25 Thread Andrew Palumbo
That's pretty cool. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> Date: 03/24/2017 7:22 PM (GMT-08:00) To: user@mahout.apache.org Cc: Mahout Dev List <d...@mahout.apache.org> Subject: Re: Marketing On

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Ted Dunning
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Pat Ferrel wrote: > maybe we should drop the name Mahout altogether. I have been told that there is a cool secondary interpretation of Mahout as well. I think that the Hebrew word is pronounced roughly like Mahout. מַהוּת The cool

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Muhammed Olgun
gt; > -Original Message- > > From: Suneel Marthi [mailto:smar...@apache.org] > > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:13 AM > > To: mahout <d...@mahout.apache.org> > > Cc: user@mahout.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Marketing > > > > On Fri,

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread dustin vanstee
itely makes sense to advertise GPU support on the front page, along > > with JVM and/or OpenMP for CPUs. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Suneel Marthi [mailto:smar...@apache.org] > > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:13 AM > > To: mahout <d...@mah

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Trevor Grant
nMP for CPUs. > > -Original Message- > From: Suneel Marthi [mailto:smar...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:13 AM > To: mahout <d...@mahout.apache.org> > Cc: user@mahout.apache.org > Subject: Re: Marketing > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Dm

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Trevor Grant
I don't think the backends we have now off the shelf are particularly exciting, but the fact you CAN plug different ones back in is the value prop (and a big one that we need to 'sell' more). The difference is subtle but since this is the marketing thread also worth bringing up. Basically to your

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
e Mahout altogether. the name Mahout, like the > blue man, is not relevant to the project anymore and maybe renaming, is > good for marketing. > > On Mar 24, 2017, at 7:37 AM, Nikolai Sakharnykh <nsakharn...@nvidia.com> > wrote: > > Agree that the website feels ou

Re: Marketing

2017-03-24 Thread Pat Ferrel
, like the blue man, is not relevant to the project anymore and maybe renaming, is good for marketing. On Mar 24, 2017, at 7:37 AM, Nikolai Sakharnykh <nsakharn...@nvidia.com> wrote: Agree that the website feels outdated. I would add Samsara code example on the front page, list of key algo

Re: Marketing

2017-03-23 Thread Trevor Grant
vor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> > Date: 03/23/2017 12:36 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: user@mahout.apache.org, d...@mahout.apache.org > Subject: Marketing > > Hey user and dev, > > With 0.13.0 the Apache Mahout project has added some significant updates. > > The website

Re: Marketing

2017-03-23 Thread Pat Ferrel
tphone Original message From: Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> Date: 03/23/2017 12:36 PM (GMT-08:00) To: user@mahout.apache.org, d...@mahout.apache.org Subject: Marketing Hey user and dev, With 0.13.0 the Apache Mahout project has added some significant updates.

RE: Marketing

2017-03-23 Thread Andrew Palumbo
+1 on revamp. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> Date: 03/23/2017 12:36 PM (GMT-08:00) To: user@mahout.apache.org, d...@mahout.apache.org Subject: Marketing Hey user and dev, With 0.13.0 the

Marketing

2017-03-23 Thread Trevor Grant
Hey user and dev, With 0.13.0 the Apache Mahout project has added some significant updates. The website is starting to feel 'dated' I think it could use a reboot. The blue person riding the elephant has less signifigance in Mahout-Samsara's modular backends. Would like to open the floor to

Re: Naive Bayes Classifier for Marketing data

2014-02-04 Thread Ted Dunning
...@oracle.comwrote: Hi, Mahout In Action book says that naive Bayes strongly prefers text-like data. Is it possible or worth to run naive bayes classifier on the marketing data in the following format, also mentioned in the book: Data has these fields: age gender typeId colorId price

Re: Naive Bayes Classifier for Marketing data

2014-02-04 Thread unmesha sreeveni
the continuous variables to categorical variables by binning. On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, mandeep singh mandeep.ma.si...@oracle.comwrote: Hi, Mahout In Action book says that naive Bayes strongly prefers text-like data. Is it possible or worth to run naive bayes classifier on the marketing

Re: Naive Bayes Classifier for Marketing data

2014-02-04 Thread Ted Dunning
by binning. On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, mandeep singh mandeep.ma.si...@oracle.comwrote: Hi, Mahout In Action book says that naive Bayes strongly prefers text-like data. Is it possible or worth to run naive bayes classifier on the marketing data in the following

Re: Naive Bayes Classifier for Marketing data

2014-02-04 Thread Ted Dunning
on the marketing data in the following format, also mentioned in the book: Data has these fields: age gender typeId colorId price discount offerTime purchaseDelay purchased Similar data formats on which I want to run naive bayes: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Bank

Naive Bayes Classifier for Marketing data

2014-02-03 Thread mandeep singh
Hi, Mahout In Action book says that naive Bayes strongly prefers text-like data. Is it possible or worth to run naive bayes classifier on the marketing data in the following format, also mentioned in the book: Data has these fields: age gender typeId colorId price discount offerTime