Random stuff: Varozhka: Installation (part 2)

Requirements

Processing is very memory-consuming because the Netflix dataset is big enough. You need at least 1GB of RAM.
~3 GB of free space at HDD. Most of it is used by Netflix dataset.
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. (checked on XP only. Please, let me know if you tried it on any other systems).
You need to have .NET Framework 2.0 installed. I guess everything (except the UI) can be migrated to Mono. Did not tried that though.

Preparations

First - download the archive with Netflix dataset. Extract it to some directory (say, c:\Netflix). Extract archive with movies (training_set.tar) to training_set subdirectory (c:\Netflix\training_set ) - this subdir is expected by indexer.

Installation

Download the latest version of Varozhka from SF.net.
Extract it to some directory (say, c:\Varozhka).

And now it's time to implement an estimator with your algorithm. Samples subdirectory (c:\Varozhka\Samples) contains two samples of simple estimators. You can view the code, or check walkthrough in the next post.