Uses of mahout:

  • It uses the Apache Hadoop library to allow Mahout to scale efficiently in the cloud.
  • Mahout focus on real-world, practical use cases as opposed to bleeding-edge research or unproven techniques and offers quality documentation.
  • It used to produce scalable machine learning algorithm then to implements its machine learning techniques that are:
    1. Recommendation
    2. Clustering
    3. Classification

Applications of Mahout:

  • Adobe, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Twitter, and Yahoo use Mahout internally.
  • Foursquare helps you to find out the place, food and entertainment available in a particular area. It uses the recommender engine of Mahout.
  • Twitter may use Mahout for user interest modelling.
  • Yahoo uses Mahout for pattern mining.
Uses and Applications of mahout

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