Re: Similar product template

2017-04-13 Thread Pat Ferrel
I’m surprised that ALS seemed clear because is is based on a complicated matrix factorization algorithm that transforms the user vectors into a smaller dimensional space that is composed of “important” features. These are not interactions with items like “buys”, they can only be described as def

Similar product template

2017-04-13 Thread Dennis Honders
Hello, I was using the similar product template. (I'm not a data scientist) The template is using the ALS algorithm and the Cooccurrence algortihm. The ALS algorithm is quite good described on the Apache Spark MLlib website. The Apache Mahout documentation about the cooccurrence algorithm is quit