I can confirm that this is a great read. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm proud to announce that a paper called 'Scalable Similarity-Based > Neighborhood Methods with MapReduce' written by me and my colleagues at > Technische Universität Berlin was accepted for publication at the ACM > Conference on Recommender Systems 2012. > > The paper describes the algorithmic heart of Mahout's distributed > recommender code, RowSimilarityJob, in detail and features experiments > on various datasets, including one of the largest publicly available > datasets from Yahoo Research, which consists of 700M ratings. > > http://recsys.acm.org/2012/program.html#top > > I will be at the conference and will be to meet anyone there interested > in Mahout. Furthermore there will also be talk about recommendationg > with Mahout at the RecSys Challenge workshop following the conference. > > Best, > Sebastian >
