I am reading the book now, and will refer to you if I have any questions then.
Thanks.


On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The trainlogistic command is (as Stanley says) only a simple example.
>
> You will need to write a program something like TrainNewsGroups for your
> modelers to use.
>
> I agree that the API oriented code in Mahout is not what those users need.
>  I was, however, what my users needed.
>
> It would be great if you would like to contribute a good command line for
> the more advanced SGD classifier training
> API.
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Stanley Xu <wenhao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Xiaobo,
>>
>> You could check the chapter 13-16 from <Mahout In Action>, it provided all
>> the parameters the command line tool of 'mahout trainlogistic' could use.
>> But the trainlogistic command is still only a simple example. If you wanted
>> to use that in a production environment, you still have to write the feature
>> encode code by yourself. The code you need to write is pretty easy, just
>> parse the input and put that in a Vector and let the LR train the data.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Stanley Xu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, XiaoboGu <guxiaobo1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply, after some reading of the wiki pages, I think what
>>> I want is a Logistic Regression command-line, since the target users of
>>> Mahout are data analysts, who can't write Java code, a command line is more
>>> convenient. Some specific questions are :
>>> 1. What format should we apply when preparing data for logistic
>>> regression, can we use csv, and should we put the value for the target
>>> variable as the first column in every row the csv file.
>>> 2. What options can we support to the command line if there is one.
>>> 3. How can interpret the results.
>>>
>>> Because Logistic Regression is the working horse of credit scoring in
>>> industry, I think it will make Mahout friends of more analysts if LR support
>>> is smooth.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Xiaobo Gu
>>>
>>> From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:02 AM
>>> To: user@mahout.apache.org
>>> Cc: Xiaobo Gu
>>> Subject: Re: Is any more detailed documentation aout the sgd logistic
>>> regression example.
>>>
>>> Can you be more specific about what you have and what you want?
>>>
>>> The book Mahout in Action provides quite a lot of details with sample code
>>> for a server farm.
>>>
>>> The TrainNewsGroups example provides code that you can copy.
>>>
>>> Do you have these resources?  Do you want more?  Did you want more theory?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Xiaobo Gu <guxiaobo1...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Documents about sgd logistic regression itself are welcome too.
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Xiaobo Gu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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