Sean Owen

Sean Owen helped build Google's Mobile Web search and launched the Taste framework, now part of Mahout.

books by Sean Owen

Mahout in Action

  • October 2011
  • ISBN 9781935182689
  • 416 pages
  • printed in black & white

This book covers machine learning using Apache Mahout. Based on experience with real-world applications, it introduces practical use cases and illustrates how Mahout can be applied to solve them. It places particular focus on issues of scalability and how to apply these techniques against large data sets using the Apache Hadoop framework.

This book is written for developers familiar with Java. No prior experience with Mahout is assumed.