The Apache Mahout™ project's goal is to build an environment for quickly creating scalable performant machine learning applications.
For additional information about Mahout, visit the Mahout Home Page
####Setting up your Environment
Whether you are using Mahout's Shell, running command line jobs or using it as a library to build your own apps you'll need to setup several environment variables. Edit your environment in ~/.bash_profile for Mac or ~/.bashrc for many linux distributions. Add the following
export MAHOUT_HOME=/path/to/mahout
export MAHOUT_LOCAL=true # for running standalone on your dev machine,
# unset MAHOUT_LOCAL for running on a cluster
You will need a $JAVA_HOME, and if you are running on Spark, you will also need $SPARK_HOME
####Using Mahout as a Library Running any application that uses Mahout will require installing a binary or source version and setting the environment. To compile from source:
mvn -DskipTests clean install- To run tests do
mvn test - To set up your IDE, do
mvn eclipse:eclipseormvn idea:idea
To use maven, add the appropriate setting to your pom.xml or build.sbt following the template below.
To use the Samsara environment you'll need to include both the engine neutral math-scala dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.mahout</groupId>
<artifactId>mahout-math-scala_2.10</artifactId>
<version>${mahout.version}</version>
</dependency>
and a dependency for back end engine translation, e.g:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.mahout</groupId>
<artifactId>mahout-spark_2.10</artifactId>
<version>${mahout.version}</version>
</dependency>
####Examples
For examples of how to use Mahout, see the examples directory located in examples/bin
For information on how to contribute, visit the How to Contribute Page
####Legal
Please see the NOTICE.txt included in this directory for more information.