Hello, I have a dataset of users and items where those objects are identified by text strings (e.g. "x97wfm"), rather than a numeric ID. What would be the best approach to processing this data using RecommenderJob (* org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.item.RecommenderJob*)? Is there any support within Mahout (or Hadoop) to do that sort of transformation, or do I have to write my own job as an input to the process which would convert the text keys to numeric IDs manually? Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks, Jeff
