You might have to be more specific. Support this is in the context of what, recommendations, clustering, ?
You can probably fit such concepts into any framework with enough cleverness, so in that sense, as a general framework, sure I don't see why any algorithm couldn't eventually be applied to such data. This is a fairly specific kind of data model, so I am not sure if it would be something explicit supported in some special way. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Pedro Oliveira <cpdom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple question: does Mahout supports, or plans to support, > multi-relational datasets? > I.e., datasets where each instance can have a variable number of values in a > attribute, and values can be other instances? > The basic example is a social network, where each person has several > attributes, and some attributes, like "knows", can have several distinct > values, and these values are other persons. > This datasets are usually very sparse (there's lots of distinct attributes, > but each instance only has values for few of them), and the relational > information is very relevant (in the social network example, the > acquaintances of our acquaintances are relevant). > > > Cheers, > Pedro >
