Re: RecommenderJob Mahout Creating a data model

2011-09-14 Thread Robert Evans
This should probably be directed more toward the Mahout list then the Hadoop Map/reduce one. mahout-u...@apache.org --Bobby Evans On 9/14/11 6:28 AM, Amit Sangroya sangroyaa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to run the example from

Re: RecommenderJob Mahout Creating a data model

2011-09-14 Thread Sean Owen
What do you mean by isolate the data model building step? You can run or re-run any step you want in the chain. So I guess the answer to 2 is yes, if you mean computed item-item similarities. But these will change slowly over time and need to be recomputed sometimes. MapReduce is never ever

Re: RecommenderJob Mahout Creating a data model

2011-09-14 Thread Sebastian Schelter
Hello Amit, I think we best start with you giving us more details about your usecase. How much data do you have? How much users? What kind of domain does your system live in? If you answer these questions first, I'm confident we'll figure out the best way you can use Mahout. Mahout's

RecommenderJob Mahout Creating a data model

2011-09-14 Thread Amit Sangroya
Hi all, I am trying to run the example from https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Itembased+Collaborative+Filtering , with the following command bin/mahout org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.item.RecommenderJob -Dmapred.input.dir=input -Dmapred.output.dir=output --itemsFile itemfile