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From: Ted Dunning <ted.dunning@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Any way Mahout overcome the data sparsity problem ?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 11:20:29 -0700
To: "user@mahout.apache.org" <user@mahout.apache.org>

Could you say a bit more about what you mean?  Which data sparsity problem?

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On Apr 1, 2012, at 6:35 AM, ziad kamel <ziad.kamel25@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any ways that mahout CF can overcome the data sparsity problem?
> 
> Thanks