The GroupLens business? no, not required at all. There's no relation to Hadoop there. You would need to let Maven install all the dependencies for core, including Hadoop, to compile though.
But no there are hadoop bindings for collaborative filtering in org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ahmet Karakaya<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > Is it mendatory to install Hadoop to run taste demo? AFAIK, Taste doesn't use > Map/Reduce, therefore shouldn't need Hadoop. Since it's included with Mahout > project, I couldn't compile the core libraries without Hadoop. Is there a > workaround to run Taste? > > Thanks > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live™ SkyDrive™: Store, access, and share your photos. See how. > http://windowslive.com/Online/SkyDrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_CS_SD_photos_072009
