Deploying a massively scalable recommender system with Apache Mahout(ssc.io)

Deploying a massively scalable recommender system with Apache Mahout

http://ssc.io/deploying-a-massively-scalable-recommender-system-with-apache-mahout/

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Mahout & EMR is a powerful combination and I can also recommend boto library for managing it. If you are using these together, be sure to use hadoop version 0.20 when running a jobflow. If you are dealing with explicit data, like star ratings, Pearson correlation might get you better results.