Audience

Developers involved in projects that use machine learning with Apache Mahout.

Format

Hands on introduction to machine learning. The course is delivered in a lab format based on real world practical use cases.

Implementing Recommendation Systems with Mahout

• Introduction to recommender systems
• Representing recommender data
• Making recommendation
• Optimizing recommendation

Clustering

• Basics of clustering
• Data representation
• Clustering algorithms
• Clustering quality improvements
• Optimizing clustering implementation
• Application of clustering in real world

Classification

• Basics of classification
• Classifier training
• Classifier quality improvements