Yes -- though I might use more like 95% for training.
You aren't running recommendations, quite; you're computing estimated
prefs, which is the step before recommendation. I assume you're doing
a RMSE comparison?

2011/10/17 WangRamon <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi Sean Do you mean that I should take the concept from the standalone one, 
> keep some real data, let's say 20% of all data, do recommend computation on 
> the other 80%, and finally do a comparation. CheersRamon
>  > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:02:37 +0100
>> Subject: Re: Does Mahout provide a way to evaluate a distributed Recommender 
>> running on Hadoop?
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>> There is not one, though you could probably adapt the evaluation code
>> without a great deal of trouble. The concept is the same; the
>> implementation is quite different. You would withhold some data, and
>> then compute the value of that withheld data and compare with the
>> original.
>>
>> 2011/10/17 WangRamon <[email protected]>:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Guys
>> >
>> > We're going to evaluate how good a distributed (on Hadoop) recommender is, 
>> > i found Mahout provides some stand alone implementation to evaluate a 
>> > recommender, so is there a distributed implementation we can use in a 
>> > Hadoop environment, thanks a lot.
>> >
>> > BTW, if there is not such an implementation, do we have any solution/idea 
>> > on how to implement one?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Ramon
>

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