Apache Mahout is a scalable machine learning library with support for several classification, clustering, and collaborative filtering algorithms. Mahout runs on top of Hadoop using the MapReduce model. Mahout also provides a Java API. This chapter explains how to get started with Mahout; you’ll install Mahout and run some sample Mahout applications. You will also see how to develop a user recommender system using the Mahout Java API. This chapter covers the following topics:
Setting the environment
Configuring and starting HDFS
Setting the Mahout environment
Running a Mahout classification ...
