Adobe
User targeting
Adobe AMP used Mahout's clustering algorithms to increase video consumption through better user targeting.
How Mahout is being used
Use cases the community has shared.
AOL
Recommendations
AOL used Mahout for shopping recommendations.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Clustering
Booz Allen Hamilton used Mahout's clustering algorithms for large-scale biometric analysis.
Drupal
Content recommendation
The Drupal Recommender API module used Mahout to provide open source content recommendation for Drupal sites.
Foursquare
Recommendations
Foursquare used Mahout for its venue recommendation engine.
Intel
Distribution
Intel shipped Mahout as part of its Distribution for Apache Hadoop Software.
LinkedIn experimented with Mahout for model training as an alternative to R-based workflows.
LucidWorks
Search and text analytics
LucidWorks Big Data used Mahout for clustering, duplicate document detection, phrase extraction, and classification.
Mendeley
Recommendations
Mendeley used Mahout to power Mendeley Suggest, a research article recommendation service.
NewsCred
News clustering
NewsCred used Mahout to cluster news articles and surface the important stories of the day.
ResearchGate
Recommendations
ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists and researchers, used Mahout's recommendation algorithms.
Sematext
Recommendations
Sematext used Mahout for its recommendation engine.
Twitter used Mahout's LDA implementation for user interest modeling.
Yahoo! Mail
Anti-spam
Yahoo! Mail used Mahout's frequent pattern set mining in its anti-spam pipeline.
TU Berlin
Teaching
The Large Scale Data Analysis and Data Mining course at TU Berlin used Mahout to teach students how to parallelize data mining problems.
Carnegie Mellon University
Research
Carnegie Mellon University used Mahout as a comparison platform in GraphLab research.
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Research
Nagoya Institute of Technology used Mahout for research and data processing in a large-scale citizen participation platform funded by the Ministry of Interior of Japan.
DERI, NUI Galway
Research
Researchers at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute used Mahout for topic mining and modelling of large corpora.
Organizations building with Mahout
Companies, projects, and research groups that have told the community they use or have used Apache Mahout.
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