Thanks to all for the appreciation. > 2011/2/19 Sean Owen <[email protected]> >> I think any new writeups are welcome. This can go on the Mahout wiki >> too. Though there is also a fairly complete walkthrough of this same >> code on the Mahout wiki. I wonder if people are finding that. >> Mahout in Action covers all of this in a great deal of detail too.
I don't think there's enough introductory stuff in the web Mahout docs, otherwise I wouldn't have written the how-to, as writing how-to's isn't my primary hobby. Especially creating and setting up the Maven project and running a simple recommender on dummy data wasn't covered in any page I've seen. Maybe it's somewhere, but I didn't find it and obviously nor did most of the others. I think for people who know some Java but have no experience with Mahout and Maven (as me) it's quite hard to get Mahout work for them. At least I have spent quite a lot of time realizing the stuff described in the how-to. As Sebastian proposed, I'm thinking about merging some of the how-to to the Mahout wiki - at least the mentioned parts. Petr On 19 February 2011 19:28, Tommaso Teofili <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Petr, > even if I think Mahout wiki provides a lot of stuff to start with (actually > also the cool site help with finding that), I also found that very useful. > Regards, > Tommaso > > 2011/2/19 Sean Owen <[email protected]> > >> I think any new writeups are welcome. This can go on the Mahout wiki >> too. Though there is also a fairly complete walkthrough of this same >> code on the Mahout wiki. I wonder if people are finding that. >> Mahout in Action covers all of this in a great deal of detail too. >> >> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Diego Tejera <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Peter thanks a lot for doing this, i am new to mahout and i've having a >> hard >> > time with mahout, as said, there is lack of introductory documentation. >> > >> > >> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Jeremy Lewi <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Petr, >> >> >> >> The section on maven is particularly useful for me. I haven't used Java >> >> since college and the world was a much simpler place back then. >> >> >> >> Jeremy >> >> On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 15:01 +0000, john abbott wrote: >> >> > HI Peter, >> >> > >> >> > That's a plus one from me a great intro. >> >> > >> >> > Thanks very much, >> >> > >> >> > John >> >> > >> >> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > > Hi Petr, >> >> > > >> >> > > we find it very useful! Actually a lot of Mahout users are just in >> this >> >> > > moment sitting together at the Berlin Mahout Hackathon and >> complaining >> >> > > about the lack of introductory documentation! Your howto is exactly >> the >> >> > > stuff this people wanna have! Could you move it to Mahout's wiki? >> That >> >> > > would be awesome. >> >> > > >> >> > > --sebastian >> >> > > >> >> > > Am 19.02.2011 15:22, schrieb Petr Cvengros: >> >> > > > Hello, >> >> > > > >> >> > > > I've written a short beginner's how-to on building Mahout and >> >> creating >> >> > > > a simple recommender: >> >> > > > http://code.google.com/p/unresyst/wiki/CreateMahoutRecommender >> >> > > > >> >> > > > I don't think anyone in this mailing list will find it useful, but >> at >> >> > > > least you can check it and potentially direct there the newbies >> >> asking >> >> > > > questions. >> >> > > > >> >> > > > Have a nice day! >> >> > > > >> >> > > > Petr >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Diego Tejera >> > http://diegotejera.org >> > >> >
