I know we lost the maintainer for fpgrowth somewhere along the line but it's 
definitely something I'd love to see carried forward, too.

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> On Oct 22, 2014, at 8:09 AM, "Brian Dolan" <buddha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sing it, brother!  I miss FP Growth as well.  Once the Scala bindings are in, 
> I'm hoping to work up some time series methods.
> 
>> On Oct 21, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Lee S <sle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> As a developer, who is facing the library  chosen between mahout and mllib,
>> I have some idea below.
>> Mahout has no any decision tree algorithm. But MLLIB has the components of
>> constructing a decision tree algorithm such as gini index, information
>> gain. And also  I think mahout can add algorithm about frequency pattern
>> mining which is very import in feature selection and statistic analysis.
>> MLLIB has no frequent mining algorithms.
>> p.s Why fpgrowth algorithm is removed in version 0.9?
>> 
>> 2014-10-22 9:12 GMT+08:00 Vibhanshu Prasad <vibhanshugs...@gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> actually spark is available in python also, so users of spark are having an
>>> upper hand over users of traditional users of mahout. This is applicable to
>>> all the libraries of python (including numpy).
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Mahesh Balija <
>>> balijamahesh....@gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I am trying to differentiate between Mahout and Spark, here is the
>>> small
>>>>> list,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Features Mahout Spark  Clustering Y Y  Classification Y Y
>>> Regression Y
>>>>> Y  Dimensionality Reduction Y Y  Java Y Y  Scala N Y  Python N Y
>>> Numpy N
>>>>> Y  Hadoop Y Y  Text Mining Y N  Scala/Spark Bindings Y N/A
>>> scalability Y
>>>>> Y
>>>> 
>>>> Mahout doesn't actually have strong features for clustering,
>>> classification
>>>> and regression. Mahout is very strong in recommendations (which you don't
>>>> mention) and dimensionality reduction.
>>>> 
>>>> Mahout does support scala in the development version.
>>>> 
>>>> What do you mean by support for Numpy?
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