Counts as machine learning to me! On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Jason Xin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > >
