I have expressed interest in the past in building a recommender based on elasticsearch, I can see building an API that performs targeted queries on top of recommendations as a service endpoint.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 9, 2014, at 7:29 AM, "Pat Ferrel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now that we have the basis of several significant improvements to Mahout’s > recommender it seems like we need to go the last step and provide a service. > Without this it is left to the user to do a lot of integration making the > current next gen somewhat incomplete. > > Using the Hadoop mapreduce code you can get all recs for all people using > collaborative filtering data or you can use the in-memory single machine > recommender if you have a small dataset. > > The next generation would require Solr or Elasticsearch so why not go the > extra step and provide a recommender API on top? At very least it would give > users a single machine API they can call, analogous to the in-memory > recommender of Mahout 0.9. But it would also be indefinitely scalable. > > Is anyone interested in discussing this here?
