Hi Sofia, I am just hearing about the Myrrix project looks interesting. Thanks for sharing the information.
Cheers! Manoj. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Douglass Davis <[email protected]>wrote: > Ok thanks. Myrrix looks like it has much of the set-up work done so I am > taking a closer look at that. > > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Sofia Georgiakaki <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hello Douglass, >> >> you could take a look at Mahout and Myrrix projects. These are two >> projects that provide implementations of recommendation & machine >> learning algorithms. There are MapReduce implementations as well, to >> support massive datasets. >> In addition, these systems provide client APIs/various integration points, >> so its easy to integrate them to your system. >> >> Regards, >> Sofia >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Douglass Davis <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2013 1:21 AM >> *Subject:* product recommendations engine >> >> Hello, >> >> I don't have any prior experience with Hadoop. I am also not a >> statistics expert. I am a software engineer, however, after looking at the >> docs, Hadoop still seems pretty intimidating to set up. >> >> I am interested in doing product recommendations. However, I want to >> store many things about user behavior, for example whether they click on a >> link in an email, how they rate a product, whether they buy it, etc. Then >> I would like to come up with similar items that a user may like. I have >> seen an example just based on user ratings, but would like to add much more >> data. >> >> Also, I think the clustering could be used in terms of recommending based >> on similar descriptions, attributes, and keywords. >> >> Or, I could use a combination of the two approaches. >> >> Another question, I wonder if Hadoop takes into account the passage of >> time. For example, a user may rate something high, then change their >> rating a couple months later. >> >> Lastly, my site is based on PHP. I need to be able to integrate that >> with Hadoop. >> >> How feasible is this approach? I saw a clustering example, and a >> recommendation example based on user ratings. Are there any other advice, >> docs, or examples that you could point me to that deals with any of these >> issues? >> >> Thanks, >> Doug >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
