Apache Mahout Clustering Designs - Softcover

This book is for developers who want to try out clustering on large datasets using Mahout. It will also be useful for those users who don't have a background in Mahout, but have knowledge of basic programming and are familiar with the basics of machine learning and clustering. It will be helpful if you know about clustering techniques for some other tool.

Ashish Gupta has been working in the field of software development for the last 10 years. He has worked in companies such as SAP Labs and Caterpillar as a software developer. While working for a start-up predicting potential customers for new fashion apparels using social media, he developed an interest in the field of machine learning. Since then, he has worked on big data technologies and machine learning for different industries, including retail, finance, insurance, and so on. He is passionate about learning new technologies and sharing that knowledge with others. He is the author of the book, Learning Apache Mahout Classification, Packt Publishing. He has organized many boot camps for Apache Mahout and the Hadoop ecosystem.