Re: Mahout In Action

2010-04-23 Thread Jeff Eastman
I also wonder how much my recent clustering changes have affected the examples in the clustering sections. I know the book is currently aimed at Mahout 0.3 but users trying the examples with trunk may be frustrated by the recent changes in file naming. Do the examples exist in an unannotated

Re: Mahout In Action

2010-04-23 Thread Robin Anil
Its not aimed at 0.3 per say. Right now its evolving with the code. For. eg. the quality factor is something that will go in there. I keep updating the code with the latest changes and so does Sean. There isnt much that got affected by your latest commit though(it compiles). Though I haven't fully

Re: Mahout In Action

2010-04-23 Thread Sean Owen
I think the goal is that the book is completely up to date with the code as of the day we have to send it to press. That will be right about 0.4, which I assume happens at the end of the summer after GSoC is digested. I just submitted changes today to match my changes this morning. If any of you

Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-15 Thread Sean Owen
I updated the news setction. Since I'm on a Mac with Java 6 and Forrest doesn't work there, would anyone mind running forrest? On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Isabel Drost isa...@apache.org wrote: On 15.01.2010 Grant Ingersoll wrote: (BTW, great read so far, I've got 3 more chapters to go in

Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-15 Thread Benson Margulies
HAHA. I'll fire up my VM when I get to my office if no one else has done it by then. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: I updated the news setction. Since I'm on a Mac with Java 6 and Forrest doesn't work there, would anyone mind running forrest? On Fri, Jan

Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-15 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Jan 15, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Sean Owen wrote: I updated the news setction. Since I'm on a Mac with Java 6 and Forrest doesn't work there, would anyone mind running forrest? It works fine as long as you install Java 1.5 and you export that as your Java Home ahead of time. I modified the

Fwd: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-14 Thread Sean Owen
Manning was suggesting we post a cover/link to Mahout in Action MEAP, like the Lucene Java page has such a link to Lucene in Action MEAP: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html I think it's a good idea since it points people to more resources, and I want feedback on the text via MEAP

Re: Fwd: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-14 Thread Jake Mannix
+1 We should definitely have it posted. -jake On Jan 14, 2010 4:25 PM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: Manning was suggesting we post a cover/link to Mahout in Action MEAP, like the Lucene Java page has such a link to Lucene in Action MEAP: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html I

Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-14 Thread Grant Ingersoll
: Manning was suggesting we post a cover/link to Mahout in Action MEAP, like the Lucene Java page has such a link to Lucene in Action MEAP: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html I think it's a good idea since it points people to more resources, and I want feedback on the text via MEAP. But I

Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-14 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
+1 Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Original Message From: Grant Ingersoll gsing...@apache.org To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 9:14:09 PM Subject: Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action +1. (BTW, great read so far, I've

Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-14 Thread Ted Dunning
: Thu, January 14, 2010 9:14:09 PM Subject: Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action +1. (BTW, great read so far, I've got 3 more chapters to go in the first 6!) We should state up front, just like in Lucene land, that anyone who has a book on Mahout is welcome to link it on the page. The more

Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-14 Thread Drew Farris
+1 as well. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: +1 (belatedly)

Re: New MEAP: Mahout in Action

2010-01-14 Thread Isabel Drost
On 15.01.2010 Grant Ingersoll wrote: (BTW, great read so far, I've got 3 more chapters to go in the first 6!) Can second that: Great book indeed. We should state up front, just like in Lucene land, that anyone who has a book on Mahout is welcome to link it on the page. The more books on

Mahout in Action MEAP

2009-12-30 Thread Sean Owen
Not sure if this got posted: http://manning.com/owen/ The first third on recommendations is more or less ready for review and the MEAP is set up for the book. I'll figure out how the folks here who would like to review it can get an e-copy. Sean