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Mahout in Action

Sean Owen, Robin Anil, Ted Dunning, and Ellen Friedman

October, 2011 | 416 pages
ISBN 9781935182689

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Resources

 Look Inside
  • Preface
  • About this book
  • Table of Contents
  • Index
Resources
  • Author Online
  • Multimedia extras
  • Meet Mahout (Green Paper - PDF)
  • Clustering Wikipedia articles (PDF)
  • Computing Average Log-Likelihood (PDF)
Downloads
  • Source code (102 KB)
  • Sample chapter 1
  • Sample chapter 8

Summary

Mahout in Action is a hands-on introduction to machine learning with Apache Mahout. Following real-world examples, the book presents practical use cases and then illustrates how Mahout can be applied to solve them. Includes a free audio- and video-enhanced ebook.

About the Technology

A computer system that learns and adapts as it collects data can be really powerful. Mahout, Apache's open source machine learning project, captures the core algorithms of recommendation systems, classification, and clustering in ready-to-use, scalable libraries. With Mahout, you can immediately apply to your own projects the machine learning techniques that drive Amazon, Netflix, and others.

About this Book

This book covers machine learning using Apache Mahout. Based on experience with real-world applications, it introduces practical use cases and illustrates how Mahout can be applied to solve them. It places particular focus on issues of scalability and how to apply these techniques against large data sets using the Apache Hadoop framework.

This book is written for developers familiar with Java. No prior experience with Mahout is assumed.

What's Inside

About the Authors

Sean Owen helped build Google's Mobile Web search and launched the Taste framework, now part of Mahout. Robin Anil contributed the Bayes classifier and frequent pattern mining implementations to Mahout. Ted Dunning contributed to the Mahout clustering, classification, and matrix decomposition algorithms. Ellen Friedman is an experienced writer with a doctorate in biochemistry.

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