Hello everyone, I'm trying to implement a simple user based recommendation engine. As a start point I have taken the mahout-taste-webapp, which pretty much fits my needs for now.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to do regular updates of the input feed file... From the Mahout in Action book (i know it's not out yet, I've got early access version) I understood that it's possible to have so called update files, however it's not clear to me how this works. I'd assume they're loaded when input file is loaded, but how about if I get new update files, how can I load them too? Do i have to reload entire thing? Or the refresh method handles this for me? The use case is pretty simple. During the day, based on user's activity there will be new update files and I'd like to process them as well. Oh, one more question, how many updates files can I have... I'm concerned that after a while we may have thousands. What's the solution in this case? I'll have to "merge" them and generate a new input file? Thank you in advance.
