A simple NASDAQ-traded stock recommender based on Apache Mahout.

Pre-requisites:

The following software needs to be installed to compile/run the system:

- Apache Hadoop
- Apache Mahout
- Maven
- JDK
- MongoDB (user can create the server/client standalone)
- Amazon EC2 (optional)

Building the system:

'mvn install'

Data Entry:

The UserOptions driver can be used to enter data into the system.
Examples:
mahout hadoop jar  <target-dir>/mahoutrec-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.aguin.stock.recommender.UserOptions -u x.y@gmail.com -ip GS:3.0 -ip YHOO:8.0
mahout hadoop jar  <target-dir>/mahoutrec-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.aguin.stock.recommender.UserOptions -u x.y@gmail.com -p 6.0
mahout hadoop jar  <target-dir>/mahoutrec-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.aguin.stock.recommender.UserOptions -u x.y@gmail.com -i YHOO 

Running the recommender:

The StockRecommender driver can be used to enter data into the system.
Example:

mahout hadoop jar  target/mahoutrec-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.aguin.stock.recommender.StockRecommender