I have installed mahout and test run several examples; would it be safe to say that one of Mahout's advantages it being used for unstructured data (scalability aside)?
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No... most of the algorithms take fairly specifically structured input like vectors or user-item pairs. There are some tools for vectorizing text docs which are unstructured. But no I wouldn't call it a tool primarily for unstructured data.
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Much obliged for the clarification... – Ibrahim Mokdad Mar 19 '12 at 18:43