John, Sounds great! Extending the stat package to include some data mining capabilities would be a good and useful addition to commons-math, IMHO. To get started, the first thing to do is to read the developer's guide (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/developers.html), which will tell point you to the general apache references and go over some IP stuff that we have to worry about in [math].
Then either here or on the Wiki (see the guide for a link), post a brief description of the kinds of mining algorithms that you are interested in developing and we can get this going. On this list, pls begin the subject line of all [math] messages with [math]. Thanks in advance for your contributions! Phil On 8/13/05, John Gant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am currently a graduate student in Computer Science and Computer > Engineering at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. First let me > congratulate the group of developers who commit and architect for > apache commons. I have used many of the libraries and they are all of > excellent quality (but I guess you already know that :)). I am > interested in contributing to open source software and have interests > that are in the domain of statistics with a focus in data mining. > After writing many algorithms for classes, and asking an apache > contributor if any of this would be needed elsewhere, he told me to > purpose something to the dev list. So here it goes, I would like to > help start a data mining section of commons math and advance the > existing statistical libraries. I plan on developing the algorithms > for personal use anyway, and would like to see some of my work be used > by others. If anyone is interested we can continue this thread and I > will email my code, and purpose my new algorithms. > > > John Gant > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
