Hey Petr, I think a lot of people do not realize this great source of info for learning Mahout: http://www.manning.com/owen/
This book is fantastic. Maybe you can place a link in your sources. Chris On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Petr Cvengros wrote: > 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 >>>> >>> >>
