I think the source code for the "Java" (not the "Python") book looks interesting: http://www.manning-source.com/books/alag/CIiA-src.zip I am not able to speak for the content of the book.
Lukas On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Goel, Ankur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did get a chance to glance at both the books - > http://www.manning.com/alag/ and > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/. > > The topic list of later looks really comprehensive and the topic > previews leave the reader asking for more. > The only drawback as already mentioned is that the code is in Python so > reader who doesn't know Python will face > a little difficuly in understanding the code examples. > > After reading the topic list of the first book and the free chapter > available online, I don't think the rest of the > content would be as comprehensive at discussing each techinque as the > second book. > > So I would definitely like to read the second one - > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ > > Does anyone have an e-copy of > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ which can be shared ? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lukas Vlcek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Collective Intelligence in Action > > I know Toby's book (have it as well :-) but all the code is in Python. > The later book seems to be truly Java oriented and uses JDM in some > examples (and WEKA). All the source code can be downloaded now from the > web page. > This could be interesting for Mahout developers to see how to use JDM > since we might think of it in the future. > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Dawid Weiss > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I also have Toby's book (the one Karl mentions). It is great. I'm > > thinking such a book would be actually a nice deliverable from Mahout > > at some point -- examples of Mahout use for solving some real-life > > problems :) > > > > D. > > > > Karl Wettin wrote: > > > Lukas Vlcek skrev: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> did anybody have a chance to read this book - Collective > > >> intelligence > > in > > >> Action (http://www.manning.com/alag/)? Based on what's inside > > >> section > > it > > >> seems as it can be useful for anybody who would like to get more > > familiar > > >> with Lucene/Nutch/WEKA/JDM (Java Data Mining API). > > > > > > I have a copy of "Programming collective intelligence". It's great. > > > All math and algorithms are described with python rather than greek > letters. > > > > > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ > > > > > > > > > > > > karl > > > > > > -- > http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/ > -- http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/
