Thanks for having me! :) I've been working with Ted on streaming k-means clustering since about December for which we finally have patches! Some more quality and speed tests are needed to see just how they perform but we're getting there.
For me, I decided to start on somewhat of a whim. I was looking for a project for my senior thesis (I'm an graduating undergrad at Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania). I worked on heuristics for finding text captions for images in my last internship and thought machine learning would be an interesting approach. I didn't get to use it right then, but I've been interested ever since. I took online classes, got books and such and when I had to chose a project, I felt that Mahout would be ideal as it combines my interest in working with large data sets with machine learning. I didn't know anything about clustering when I first started, but thanks to Ted's patient explanations and help I pulled through. I'm looking forward to have these new algorithms integrated and then have a look at unifying the APIs and see what other interesting features we want to add. Thanks for the great time! Dan On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Isabel Drost-Fromm <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 4/4/13 6:30 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > > In recognition of the contributions of Suneel Marthi and Dan Filimon to > > > the Mahout project, the PMC is pleased to announce both have accepted > our > > > invitations to join the Mahout project as committers. > > Congratulations and welcome to the project. Thanks a lot for your > contributions so far - looking forward to more :) > > > Isabel >
