Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

In case you haven’t heard, and are in Europe this June (or want to be), you should check out the Berlin Buzzwords conference.  It’s a great conference for all things related to Lucene, Solr, Hadoop, Mahout, NoSQL and generally scaling.  The CFP is open now through March 11.

      I’ve posted my review of “Mahout in Action” on Lucid’s website: Mahout in Action Review.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?  [...]

I put my slides up from last night’s TriHUG talk on Apache Mahout on my slideshare account.

I will be speaking tomorrow night at the Triangle Hadoop Users Group on Apache Mahout, hosted by Bronto Software.  This will be an introduction to both Mahout and machine learning, but we will also look at how Mahout uses Hadoop in a particular algorithm.  To learn more, see Triangle Hadoop Users Group.

Lucid Imagination » Apache Mahout 0.4 Released. Lots of exciting new things happening in Mahout!