Mahout News
Wow! Mahout has just got me pumped up. I feel like we’ve got a lot of positive momentum and that we are starting to get the various pieces of our suite of machine learning libraries in place. Various news items include:
- Ted Dunning is now a committer! Welcome Ted!
- I put up a patch for a map-reduce ready (MRR?) version of a Naive Bayes classifier. Still needs some work, but feedback is appreciated. It includes a sample of running it against the 20 Newsgroups data.
- Seems like their is someone new providing comments, etc. every day. The mailing list continues to grow.
- We have slotted 3 Google Summer of Code participants and had many excellent proposals. It was very difficult to decide.
- The Taste project is now officially accepted into Mahout and will be running in distributed mode in no time, I’m sure.
- Karl is working on a hierarchical clustering implementation, amongst other things.
We are also trying to obtain compute resources for committers to use such that we can do testing/benchmarking on a cluster as opposed to some hodge-podge of resources any individual has access to at any given point in time. If you are in a position to donate cloud time, please drop me a line.
