Shall I go and put some of the ideas up. I will do it as a whole for the project. Later we can re-assign things maybe ? How does that sound? Unlike other projects we cant really go an put a proposal like "Implement back-propagation" and expect a student to take it up and reduce things to map/reduce.
Some of the ideas (i am going to be really ambitious/vague here, but write clear expectations or guidelines on what is an ideal proposal) 1) Implement a cool classifier over map/reduce 2) Implement a cool clustering algorithm on map/reduce 3) Implement a meta-learner to plugin to various classifiers in mahout and have bagging, boosting support. 4) Continuous performance benchmarking/dashboard maybe wrappers over EC2 5) Create a matrix implementations of MYSQL and NOSQL(hbase, cassandra) access for all the algorithms to use. 6) Implement some of the ideas from Netflix top 5 to boost recommendations packge 7) Visualization tool for clustering, classification or recommendation. ability to explain(optional) 8) Improve mahout-math package Who is free to mentor this year? i.e giving 5-6 hours weekly to a student and hear then crib(sorry ian and isabel :P) and give words of encouragement. And yes, code reviews. Robin
