I don't use it at all except for illustrative purposes. I find that my work (typically using classifiers only) requires specialized feature extraction and encoding not supportable via bin/mahout. I would expect the same with clustering.
For deploying classifiers, bin/mahout is similarly not very useful to me since classifiers have to be embedded in something else normally. If I were doing batch classification against large numbers of records extracted from a database into flat files, it might be useful. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Dan Brickley <[email protected]>wrote: > > As an aside (given talk of comfort zones etc), may I ask: > > Of the core developers (a highly java-literate group, by definition), do > you all make much use of the bin/mahout commandline ui? My fear/hunch is > that for many of you it's not so useful given ease of writing a quick java > prog... > > How much of your Mahout work do you folk manage to do purely via > bin/mahout? > > Dan
