It looks like a big classifier. I'm guessing it's going to be pretty great. It's such a natural fit with their infrastructure.
Building out these underlying map-reduce implementations is great, but in the end the useful thing is to wrap that up in an API that is oriented towards a particular application. That's the hard part too -- how do you make such a general process applicable to many types of data in many contexts with one general framework or API? It looks like they may provide many particular domain-specific APIs on top of this engine. That's what would be really great. ... and I don't doubt people, on this list perhaps, are also interested in building a series of specializations on top of Mahout to orient it to specific domains and use cases. That's an interesting business! On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Florent Empis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a new service by Google of supervised learning > http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/bigquery-and-prediction-api-get-more.html > > Anyone has thoughts on this? I'd say it seems pretty limited as of now, but > the details are scarce... > > Sorry for this slight off-topic... :) > > BR, > > Florent Empis >
