[SPARK-12247] Documentation for spark.ml's ALS and collaborative filtering in general

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation, MLlib
• Assignee: Benjamin Fradet
• Reporter: Timothy Hunter
• Created: 09/Dec/15 22:42
• Updated: 13/May/16 02:12
• Resolved: 16/Feb/16 13:03

Description

We need to add a section in the documentation about collaborative filtering in the dataframe API:

• copy explanations about collaborative filtering and ALS from spark.mllib
• provide an example with spark.ml's ALS

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-15101 Audit: ml.clustering and ml.recommendation
• relates to: SPARK-11606 ML 1.6 QA: Update user guide for new APIs
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #10411 (BenFradet)