Preface

With the progress in hardware, our storage capacity has increased now, and because of this, there are many organizations that want to store all types of events for analytical purpose. This is giving birth to a new area of machine learning. The field of machine learning is very complex, and writing those algorithms is not a piece of cake. Apache Mahout provides us with readymade algorithms in the area of machine learning and saves us from the complex task of algorithm implementation.

The intention of this book is to cover clustering algorithms available in Apache Mahout. Whether you have already worked on clustering algorithms using some other tool, or whether you are completely new to this field, this book will help you. So, start reading this book, explore the clustering algorithms in a strong, community-supported, open source, and one of the most popular Apache projects—Apache Mahout.