Re: FPGrowth and Recommendations

2015-03-03 Thread Jeff Isenhart
I am actually modeling charges. The main use case is when we have charges a,b and c then we have charge d with a confidence, support, lift, etc...Then when I get an account with some charges, I look this up against the model to see if any charge may be missing (based on confidence)+ I was un

Re: FPGrowth and Recommendations

2015-03-02 Thread Pat Ferrel
Jeff, are you trying to build a general recommender? Or a shopping cart recommender? FP was used to find things often bought together, which means recommendations based on some partial group of items (watchlist, wishlist, shopping cart). FPG has been deprecated in favor of newer methods. There

Re: FPGrowth and Recommendations

2015-03-02 Thread Andrew Musselman
Hi Jeff, as I recall the map-reduce-based fp-growth solution was problematic, and it's been either deprecated or removed. There are better solutions under the "recommendations" tab at http://mahout.apache.org And I would encourage your updating your version of Mahout to 0.9 or to the master branc

FPGrowth and Recommendations

2015-03-02 Thread Jeff Isenhart
Hi, New to mahout and fp growth. I havefollowed this example:https://chimpler.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/finding-association-rules-with-mahout-frequent-pattern-mining/ I generated nice output informationlike this (as an example): [abc,def,ghi] => klm,confidence:0.597, support:0.01, lift: 57.415, con