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:
- Recommendation
- Clustering
- 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.
