A 'regular' regression may not qualify as machine-learning, although machines definitely can learn regular regression. If data set is too large, your R may crash. That is, most of R programs today.
-----Original Message----- From: Ted Dunning [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:34 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Forecasting in Mahout That is a regression, not a classifier. There are no good regression in Mahout just now. How large is your data? Is R not an option? On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:31 AM, ParvathyPillai <[email protected]>wrote: > I am currently working on a project which deals with demand > forecasting and machine learning on Hadoop. I came across Mahout when > researching for this. > From the various tutorials and 'Mahout in Action' book, I came to > understand that classification algorithms on Mahout though allow the > use of continuous predictor variables, needs the target variables to > be categorical. Is it possible to apply these classification > algorithms for predicting the values of continuous variables, > essentially like demand? If so, how? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Forecasting-in-Mahout-tp3985365.htm > l Sent from the Mahout User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
