Hadoop: Data Processing and Modelling

Chapter 8. Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics Using Mahout and R

In this chapter, we'll cover the following recipes:

• Setting up the Mahout development environment
• Creating an item-based recommendation engine using Mahout
• Creating a user-based recommendation engine using Mahout
• Using predictive analytics for the marketing data of a bank
• Clustering text data using K-Means
• Performing population data analytics using R
• Performing Twitter Sentiment Analytics using R
• Performing Predictive Analytics using R

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we talked about how to automate Hadoop and its ecosystem tasks using Oozie. In this chapter, we will go deeper into the concepts of machine learning using Mahout and R. Mahout is a machine learning library, which ...