I was taken aback that the immensely touted and convenient Canopy KMeans package was today deprecated [1] in the incubating mahout 1.0 with no hint that I could find warned in this, at least back through March. And even then I can see only in retrospect that a suggestion lurked in [2] that Streaming KMeans is preferable. I only saw this when, in tinkering with my apparently successful use of CanopyDriver, I ended up in the JavaDoc from the SVN repo, which is where a public document [3] directs developers.
At the very least, [4] should begin with a deprecation warning (I commented Jira MAHOUT-1513 to this effect). Also, perhaps [3] should point to the most released JavaDoc rather than the SVN trunk. Apologies for the grumble if in fact I missed a warning posted here and I redirect my grumble at myself. Bob [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1513 [2] http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-user/201403.mbox/%3C1394662437.49533.YahooMailNeo%40web163502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com%3E [3] https://mahout.apache.org/developers/developer-resources.html [4] http://mahout.apache.org/users/clustering/canopy-clustering.html -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Filtered Push Project Harvard University Herbaria Harvard University web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://wiki.filteredpush.org http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram === The content of this communication is made entirely on my own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or Harvard University.
