Satnam Alag

I consider this book a must for those who also read or think about reading Segaran's 'Programming Collective Intelligence'. This book's language of choice is Java and it presents important aspects of industrial strength open source tools such Nutch, Lucene and Hadoop.

The book is very practical oriented and do not expect to find much theoretical about data mining or machine algorithms (the author is very brief on explanations, gives good examples and provide enough literature to dive into relevant detailed texts, articles, books, etc.). However if you want to jump into analysing your application's unstructured data along with user analysis, build intelligence and focused crawling and searching functionalities, and finally build a recommendation system then this book is full of technical treasury.

I really liked the final chapters on building recommendation systems and also I was glad to learn about JDM, the Java Data Mining API.

Another strong point of the book is its concerns about scalability and discussions about class and database design for implementing the systems.… (más)