When I started reading Lukáš's (heh) email I also immediately started thinking "Eclipse Hadoop plugin". So, Lukáš, that may be the fastest way to get started, if that's what you are looking for.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Richard Tomsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:53:36 AM > Subject: Re: Mahout GUI [was Re: Input format [Re: Taste Vs Weka]] > > Lukáš Vlček wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Speaking about Mahout GUI how useful do you see it would be? > > > > I don't have direct experience with WEKA or similar tool GUIs but do you > > think that wrapping Mahout into kind of plugin for them would be easy and > > straightdorward? More specifically, the part of running Mahout jobs deals > > with managing Hadoop and/or HDFS a lot I think. This makes me think that a > > good GUI for Mahout would always reguire a little bit more then just simple > > load data file, run algorithm(s) and view/visualize results. It should > > include tools for managing, setting and monitoring Hadoop, HDFS ... etc. Do > > you agree? Or is there already anything like this included in WEKA or Yale? > > > I don't think there's anything like that in WEKA, though as it's all > Java it should be do-able. I like the way the Eclipse Hadoop plug-in > works regarding connecting to Hadoop, monitoring job progress and > viewing the filesystem, it makes things pretty straightforward, so that > kind of functionality built into the pre-existing GUI of something like > WEKA might be nice. I suppose though that if you had a Mahout plug-in > for something like WEKA, it would be expected just to make the suite of > algorithms available in WEKA work on Hadoop rather than (or as well as) > providing a different set of algorithms. > > A GUI could be nice and would definitely help with playing around with > Mahout without much effort.
