On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 11:34:43 -0500 Nick Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > I've spent the past several months documenting what we've gone > through to get our recommendation pipeline up and running but it > comes from a more "business-y" angle. [...]
If you'd like to contribute this documentation, you'd instantly have my +1 > It took me a while to piece together everything we could do with > recommendations from various blogs, MIA, the Mahout wiki, slideshare, > my own experimentation, etc. and I kept hoping I'd find a > consolidated source for "this is how you can start to apply Mahout's > recommendation capabilities in a fairly traditional commercial > organization" but never stumbled across a resource that fit the bill. > MIA was great in getting me to think about what might be possible but > finding real-world examples was tough. As Manuel already pointed out getting people to talk about these kinds of behind the scenes information is rather tough - several solutions I know of deal with either privacy sensitive or business relevant data. So even just getting coding examples, let alone data to use in examples isn't trivial. > So, would it prove worthwhile to have something like this as a > component of the Mahout wiki? If so, I'm happy to condense some of my > documentation and send to the group for thoughts and potential > inclusion. +100 from my side. Try editing the CMS main page directly - as we've switched to it and even other committers are just about to get started with it, also feel free to write your guidelines up in Markdown format and put them in a JIRA issue. > I'm not the guy you want helping fix bugs or cleaning up > code but I spend my days with "boots on the ground" implementation of > Mahout in a Fortune 15 organization and I have to believe there are > others out there in my position looking for help on how to integrate > Mahout into their operations. Honestly this is a very valuable contribution to the project! Isabel
