February 2014
Intermediate to advanced
56 pages
59m
English
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Appendix A. Additional Resources
Slides/Videos
- October 2013 Strata + Hadoop World (New York) talk by Ted Dunning on building multimodal recommendation engine using search technology: http://slidesha.re/16juGjO
- May 2014 Berlin Buzzwords video of “Multi-modal Recommendation Algorithms” talk by Ted Dunning: http://bit.ly/XXy2bm
Blog
Two related entries from Ted Dunning’s blog “Surprise and Coincidence”:
- On recommendation, LLR, and a bit of code: http://bit.ly/1dCL5Vk
- Software tutorials for corpus analysis: http://bit.ly/1dZdKyX
Books
Mahout in Action by Sean Owen, Robin Anil, Ted Dunning, and Ellen Friedman (Manning 2011): http://amzn.to/1eRFSbb
- Japanese translation: Mahout in Action (O’Reilly Japan): http://bit.ly/14td9DS
- Korean translation: Mahout in Action (Hanbit Media, Inc.): http://bit.ly/VzZHY9
- Apache Mahout Cookbook by Piero Giacomelli (Packt Publishing 2013): http://amzn.to/1cCtQNP
Training
One-day technical course, “Machine Learning with Apache Mahout: Introduction to Scalable ML for Developers,” developed by the authors for MapR Technologies and co-developed by Tim Seears of Big Data Partnership. For details, see MapR or BDP.
Apache Mahout Open Source Project
For more information, visit the Apache Mahout website or Twitter.
LucidWorks
The LucidWorks website includes tutorials on Apache Solr/LucidWorks.
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch provides an alternative wrapper for Lucene. The techniques in this book work just as well for Elasticsearch as for Solr.
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