Binning refers to the reduction of a continuous variable to a categorical variable. This is done by defining intervals which partition all possible values and testing the continuous variable to see which interval it falls into.
Why would map-reduce have anything to do with this? On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:51 AM, unmesha sreeveni <unmeshab...@gmail.com>wrote: > Sorry. > But in defenitive guide i saw binning tags. I dnt know about whether > numerical binning is possible in mapreduce. > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Not to be rude, but how would you think you could use binning in a > > map-reduce program? > > > > Seriously, what ideas can you come up with for this? What are the > problems > > you see? > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:29 AM, unmesha sreeveni <unmeshab...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > How to use binning in mapreduce > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Mandeep, > > > > > > > > I just worked through a similar example using the same data set but > > using > > > > the logistic regression learner. > > > > > > > > In order to use Naive bayes, you would need to convert the continuous > > > > variables to categorical variables by binning. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, mandeep singh > > > > <mandeep.ma.si...@oracle.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Mahout In Action book says that naive Bayes strongly prefers > > text-like > > > > > data. > > > > > Is it possible or worth to run naive bayes classifier on the > > marketing > > > > > data in the following format, also mentioned in the book: > > > > > Data has these fields: age gender typeId colorId price discount > > > offerTime > > > > > purchaseDelay purchased > > > > > Similar data formats on which I want to run naive bayes: > > > > > http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Bank+Marketing > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *Thanks & Regards* > > > > > > Unmesha Sreeveni U.B > > > Junior Developer > > > > > > http://www.unmeshasreeveni.blogspot.in/ > > > > > > > > > -- > *Thanks & Regards* > > Unmesha Sreeveni U.B > Junior Developer > > http://www.unmeshasreeveni.blogspot.in/ >
