Java's Mahout equivalent in Python

Question

Java based Mahout's goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries. Are there any equivalent libraries in Python ?

Answer 1

scikits learn is highly recommended http://scikit-learn.sourceforge.net/

Answer 2

Spark MLlib is recommmended. It is a scalable machine learning lib, can read data from HDFS and of course runs on top of Spark.

You can access it via PySpark (see the Programming Guide's Python examples).

Answer 3

Orange is supposedly pretty decent, from what I've heard, but I've never used it personally. PyML might be worth taking a look at as well. Also, Monte.

Answer 4

pysuggest is a Python wrapper for SUGGEST, a Top-N recommendation engine that implements a variety of recommendation algorithms for collaborative filtering.

Answer 5

An interesting library is crab.

As of this post, the library only has stable implementations for collaborative filtering algorithms: user-based and item-based.

An SVD implementation is included but it's experimental and content-based algorithms are on the roadmap.

Do check it out!