Hi Guillaume On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Guillaume Billard <gbill...@krysalide.fr>wrote:
> Hello, > > My company is looking into creating a website for clothes shopping built > around a recommendation engine. User criteria would be past purchases and > items that have been looked at (à la Amazon), measurements, personal tastes > (colours, clothing styles...). > Items criteria would be colours, clothing styles, etc. > > It is not decided yet if we try and build our own engine or if we can > benefit from an existing one. > > 1/ How active is Mahout development? The last commit is very recent if I'm > not mistaken. Can we expect improvements/new features in the future? > http://fisheye6.atlassian.com/reports/mahout <http://fisheye6.atlassian.com/reports/mahout>Yes tons of them 5 cool new algorithms to come this summer with GSOC projects alone. And plenty of improvements to the core structures > > 2/ I believe Mahout can be used in a commercial software, free of charge, > due to the Apache license. Am I mistaken? > http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html > 3/ How long did it take to develop Mahout? Its been active for 3 years now > 4/ Do you reckon it is a good idea to try and use Mahout for the project I > described? > YES (Though as a developer its a biased opinion) See the code, browse the > wiki > 5/ How long do you reckon it would take for a programmer used to Java & > database management to get used to the framework and use it effectively in a > real-world app? > Depends on effectively. You can get up and running very quickly (single > command line) provided you have transformed your data into the correct > format. You might need to spend a little time understanding that structure. > Thats it Sorry if these are vague questions, I'm just starting researching on this > subject! > These are some vague answers :) But these links might be able to answer it more in detail Robin
