As suggested here, I am running hadoop in pseudodistributed mode with the following mapred-site.xml file. The job is running on a 4 core machine. <configuration> <property> <name&...

I am running a task in pseudo-distributed mode on my 4 core laptop. How can I ensure that all cores are effectively used. Currently my job tracker shows that only one job is executing at a time. D...

I have a data set of users and their loan repayment metrics (how long they took, how many installments etc). Now I want to analyse a user's past loan history and say, "If we loan them X they ...

I want to use Apache Mahout in my project on Ruby on Rails for implementing recommendations and collaborative filtering. In Particular my requirements are: suggesting related tags. suggesting rel...

I intended to use hadoop as "computation cluster" in my project. However then I read that Hadoop is not inteded for real-time systems because of overhead connected with start of a job. I'm looking ...

I'm working on a large text classification project and we have our text data (simple messages) stored in HBase. We have two problems, first we would like to use HBase as the source for Mahout cla...

I am currently working on system that generated product recommendations like those on Amazon : "People who bought this also bought this.." Current Scenario: Extract the Google Analytics data of ...

I'm a PHP developer. Let's just get that out of the way now. But Hadoop – and Mahout in particular – have piqued my interest. I'm ready to take the dive into Java in order to use them. So from peo...

I want to run Mahout's K-Means example in a hadoop cluster of 5 machines. Which Mahout jar files should I need to keep in all the nodes, in order for the K-Means to be executed in a distributed man...

I'm reading that i can create mahout vectors from a lucene index that can be used to apply the mahout clustering algorithms. http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Creating+Vectors+from+...

I am trying to solve a simple classification problem. The Problem: I have a set of text and I have to categorize them based on the content. Solution using Mahout: I understood that I have to co...