Github user mengxr commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/296#issuecomment-39872433
Yes, maybe a user didn't make any ratings. It is easy to implement
covariance by counting the number of active rows, but my concern is whether
this is confusing to users.
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