blog-spark-recommendation

Simple example on how to use recommenders in Spark / MLlib using the Play framework. More info on our blog: http://chimpler.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/building-a-food-recommendation-engine-with-spark-mllib-and-play/

UPDATE 2016/04/18

I am going to start with this project in order to learn more about how to build recomendation engines using spark.

More info in my blog http://aironman2k.wordpress.com

TODO

update build.sbt to use latest versions of dependencies

Setup

You will need:

  • Scala 2.10+
  • Play Framework
  • MongoDB

Download the food review file (500K reviews) using the download.sh script.

Running the example

$ cd $YOUR_PROJECT_FOLDER
$ sbt
$ play package run