And by the way: This is the best place to ask such a question :)

2013/7/30 Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]>

> Hi Rafal,
>
> can you issue a ticket for this problem at
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT ? We have unit-tests that
> check whether this happens and currently they work fine. I can only imagine
> that the problem occurs in larger datasets where we sample the data in some
> places. Can you describe a scenario/dataset where this happens?
>
> Best,
> Sebastian
>
>
> 2013/7/30 Rafal Lukawiecki <[email protected]>
>
>> I'm new here, just registered. Many thanks to everyone for working on an
>> amazing piece of software, thank you for building Mahout and for your
>> support. My apologies if this is not the right place to ask the question—I
>> have searched for the issue, and I can see this problem has been reported
>> here:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13822455/apache-mahout-distributed-recommender-recommends-already-rated-items
>>
>> Unfortunately, the trail leads to the newsgroups, and I have not found a
>> way, yet, to get an answer from them, without asking you.
>>
>> Essentially, I am running a Hadoop RecommenderJob from Mahout 0.7, and I
>> am finding that it is recommending items that the user has already
>> expressed a preference for in their input file. I understand that this
>> should not be happening, and I am not sure if there is a know fix or if I
>> should be looking for a workaround (such as using the entire input as the
>> filterFile).
>>
>> I will double-check that there is no error on my side, but so far it does
>> not seem that way.
>>
>> Many thanks and my regards from Ireland,
>> Rafal Lukawiecki
>>
>> --
>>
>> Rafal Lukawiecki
>>
>> Strategic Consultant and Director
>>
>> Project Botticelli Ltd
>>
>>
>

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