Apache Mahout

It’s that time of year again: time to vote for SXSW talks.  Last year I did a talk with RC Johnson of BazaarVoice on Solr as NoSQL, this year I thought I would try to fly solo and submitted a talk on Apache Mahout. So, if you are so inclined to do the whole crowdsourcing [...]

After some time away, I’m happy to have had some time recently to work on Mahout again.  Lots of goodness all over the place happening there that I’ll leave to others to explain while I focus in on a few recent things I’ve been doing. First off, I was doing a fair amount of work [...]

If you’re interested in working on large scale problems like Apache Hadoop, Lucene, Solr, Mahout, Cassandra, etc. and you live in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill or greater NC area, then you might be interested in the upcoming Scale-A-Thon event that several of us from the Triangle Hadoop User’s Group are putting on June 18th at Bronto [...]

Yonik pointed me at:   mahout Job Trends Mahout jobs While the scale is still pretty small (compare w/ iPhone at 0.1 on the vertical axis), at least it’s going upwards!  Of course, the keyword match for the search also assumes that we are talking Apache Mahout here and that no one is advertising for [...]

The slides from my DC Hadoop meetup presentation are on SlideShare at: Intro to Mahout — DC Hadoop. I really enjoyed the meetup.  Lots of good questions and insights into machine learning.  For those at the meeting who were asking about references, check out Mahout’s references page, especially the Background Material section.

I’m on the hot seat for “Stump the Chump” this year at Lucene Revolution, so if you have questions you want me to tackle, please either show up at my talk or email them to [email protected].  See Session Abstracts | Day 1 | www.lucenerevolution.org for more information.

Excellent post by fellow Mahout committer Sebastian Schelter on deploying a large scale recommender with Mahout: Deploying a massively scalable recommender system with Apache Mahout | “I for one welcome our new computer overlords”.

I just sent out to the mailing lists the official release announcements for Lucene and Solr 3.1.0 as well as posted over on the Lucid Imagination site the release announcement, etc. Lucid Imagination » Apache Lucene 3.1.0 and Apache Solr 3.1.0. Thanks to everyone for all their hard work in making these releases happen.

Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style | Foursquare Engineering Blog. Nice write up on how Foursquare built a recommendation engine and a little bit on how they are using Mahout!

Finally back in the saddle from SXSW, where a good time was had by all, AFAICT.  It was my first time, so it was a bit overwhelming.  So many people, so much hype, so much to do and see.  Suffice it to say, most of the hype was about social media.  Can you say Bubble?  [...]