It's been a good long while since I've done any work on this, but I'm gearing up to start again.
I don't think I heard any word back on whether the namespace choice was kosher, so I guess this is the same query to the DateTime folks, et al. Either way I'd like to find a place that it can fit. Thanks, Brian On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Brian Hann<brian.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bobby, > > I'm still not 100% on what method(s) I'm going to need to use. It > might end up being the case that a lot of tuning is needed to make > predictions usable. At the very least it should be able to note > regularities and flag them. > > Right now this is just something that I need, and thought it would be > useful to others if it works. > > Thanks, > > Brian > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Metz, Bobby > <bobby.m...@globalcrossing.com> wrote: >> Brian, >> How are you planning to tackle the prediction piece? Have any >> particular algorithm in mind? I started speculating after reading your >> e-mail, but nothing concrete jumped out at me. I thought that a purely >> numerical date representation would work...using some type of standard >> regression for prediction...with conversion from/to DateTime objects >> simply for display. Of course that now seems impractical to me since >> timezones and daylight savings irregularities would screw that up in my >> mind. >> >> B >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Brian Hann [mailto:brian.h...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 5:40 PM >>> To: Steffen Mueller >>> Cc: modu...@perl.org; bh...@cpan.org; datetime@perl.org >>> Subject: Re: Module submission DateTime::Event::Predict >>> >>> I thought maybe since I would be working with DateTime objects that >>> would be the best fit. >>> >>> If that's not the case then I'm completely open to suggestions. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Steffen Mueller >>> <wyp3rl...@sneakemail.com> wrote: >>> > Hi Brian, hi DateTime people, >>> > >>> > Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: >>> >> The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: >>> >> >>> >> modid: DateTime::Event::Predict >>> >> description: Predict next date from a set of dates >>> > [...] >>> >> This module would take a set of dates (probably DateTime >> objects) >>> >> and find trends in recurrence ('every Thursday', 'every weekend >>> >> day', 'every other week', 'once a month', etc) and also provide >>> >> predictions for the next date most likely to follow the set. >>> >> >>> >> If workable I would think this would have any number of >>> >> applications. >>> > [...] >>> > >>> > I asked Dave Rolsky about this. He requested that for namespaces in >> the >>> > DateTime::* family, you should please clear your request with the >>> > DateTime folks via their mailing list which I'm CCing. >>> > >>> > Best regards, >>> > Steffen, for the PAUSE admins >>> > >> >
