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Mahout in Action
EARLY ACCESS EDITION

Sean Owen and Robin Anil

MEAP Began: December 2009
Softbound print: Fall 2010 | 375 pages
ISBN: 9781935182689

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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources

Table of Contents         Resources 
 1. Meet Mahout - FREE

Part I - Recommendations
 2. Introducing Recommenders - AVAILABLE
 3. Representing Data - AVAILABLE
 4. Making Recommendations - AVAILABLE
 5. Taking Recommenders to production - AVAILABLE
 6. Distributing Recommendation Computations - AVAILABLE

Part 2 Clustering
 7. Introduction to Clustering - AVAILABLE
 8. Running the clustering algorithms in Mahout
 9. Understanding the quality of your clusters
10. Taking clustering to the next level
11. Real world applications of clustering

Part 3 Classification
12. Introduction to classification
13. Power of the naive classifier
14. Multiclass classification
15. Classifier evaluation
16. Tuning your classifier for greater accuracy and performance
17. Bringing classifier to the real world
 

About the Early Access Version

This Early Access version of Mahout in Action enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online

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