About the Author

Ashish Gupta has been working in the field of software development for the last 10 years. He has worked in companies such as SAP Labs and Caterpillar as a software developer. While working for a start-up predicting potential customers for new fashion apparels using social media, he developed an interest in the field of machine learning. Since then, he has worked on big data technologies and machine learning for different industries, including retail, finance, insurance, and so on. He is passionate about learning new technologies and sharing that knowledge with others. He is the author of the book, Learning Apache Mahout Classification, Packt Publishing. He has organized many boot camps for Apache Mahout and the Hadoop ecosystem.

First of all, I would like to thank the open source communities for their continuous efforts in developing great software. I would also like to thank the reviewers of this book.

Nothing can be accomplished without the support of family, friends, and loved ones; I would like to thank them, especially my wife and son, for their continuous support while writing this book.