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What: The Crab is a BSD-licensed project for building
recommender systems using Python and SciPy. Its goals are to help
beginners and specialists to build and evaluate customized recommender
engines in an ease of use and computational performance
environment.
Why: Recommender engines are the most immediately recognizable
machine learning techniques in use today. We've all seen services
or sites that attempt to recommend books or movies or articles
baed on our past actions. They try to infer tastes and preferences
and identify unknown items that are of interest. Several approaches
have been proposed in several languages but for Python community
there's a need for those tools, specially for easy-to-use and
state-of-the-art libraries for this type of task. Python is being
used with big data successfully and as result it enjoys a
growing success in the scientific computing communities, with several
python numerical computing libraries. We believe Crab might be
a useful framework for scientists and beginners to start learning and
even deploying their custom recommendation techniques using Python
as the main programming language.
Ease of use: Crab tries to bridge the gap between
academic research and general-purpose programming by being accessible to
non-specialists and developers. This goal motivates the following choices:
- A strong focus on documentation and examples:
- Ease of installation by keep the dependencies low (only numpy and scipy) and limiting the use of compiled code
- Simple API avoiding the use of machine-learning jargon
Why PythonBrasil: The conference PythonBrasil <http://pythonbrasil.org.br/>
is considered one of the major Python meetups in Latin America. It is a traditional
brazilian event hosted every year since 2007. This year it is in São Paulo.
As the PythonBrazil gathers many python enthusiasts, it is a great opportunity
for Crab project to gain new contributors.
Local organization: The sprint will be held during the PythonBrazil conference. Further information can be found at: http://www.pythonbrasil.org.br/2011/programacao/sprints
- In São Paulo/SP - Brazil: Send an email to caraciol@gmail.com for further information about the place.
- On IRC (#muricoca on irc.freenode.net)
- Marcel Caraciolo
- ** It still will be defined.