Is it worth purchasing Mahout in Action to get up to speed with Mahout, or are there other better sources?

Question

I\'m currently a very casual user of Apache Mahout, and I\'m considering purchasing the book Mahout in Action. Unfortunately, I\'m having a really hard time getting an idea of h

Answer 1

there are many parts of the book that are out of date, a version or two behind what is current. In addition, there are several mistakes within the text, particularly within the examples. this may make things a bit tricky when trying to replicate the discussed results.

Additionally, you should be aware that the most mature part of mahout, the recommender system, taste, isnt distributed. I'm not really sure why this is packaged with the rest of mahout. this is more a complaint about the software package than mahout itself.