Apache Mahout is an open source project that is primarily used in producing scalable machine learning algorithms. This brief tutorial provides a quick introduction to Apache Mahout and explains how it can be appped to make recommendations and organize documents in more useable clusters.

Audience

This tutorial has been prepared for professionals aspiring to learn the basics of Mahout and develop apppcations involving machine learning techniques such as recommendation, classification, and clustering.

Prerequisites

Before you start proceeding with this tutorial, we assume that you have prior exposure to Core Java, Hadoop, and any of the Linux operating system flavors.