Re: [HACKERS] GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib

2013-03-27 Thread Thom Brown
On 27 March 2013 08:12, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 27.03.2013 08:51, Atri Sharma wrote: I'm a bit confused as to why this is being proposed as a Postgres-related project. I don't even know what MADlib is, but I'm pretty darn sure that no part of Postgres uses it. KNNGist

Re: [HACKERS] GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib

2013-03-27 Thread Atri Sharma
> But it would be even better if MADLib would apply to GSoC as an independent > organization. The deadline for organization applications is on March 29th, > so if the MADLIb people are interested in that, they need to hurry and send > the application right now. Agreed. Is there any way we could ad

Re: [HACKERS] GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib

2013-03-27 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 27.03.2013 08:51, Atri Sharma wrote: I'm a bit confused as to why this is being proposed as a Postgres-related project. I don't even know what MADlib is, but I'm pretty darn sure that no part of Postgres uses it. KNNGist certainly doesn't. It's a reasonably well established extension for P

Re: [HACKERS] GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib

2013-03-26 Thread Atri Sharma
>> I'm a bit confused as to why this is being proposed as a >> Postgres-related project. I don't even know what MADlib is, but I'm >> pretty darn sure that no part of Postgres uses it. KNNGist certainly >> doesn't. > > It's a reasonably well established extension for Postgres for > statistical an

Re: [HACKERS] GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib

2013-03-26 Thread Daniel Farina
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Atri Sharma writes: >> I suggested a couple of algorithms to be implemented in MADLib(apart >> from K Medoids). You could pick some(or all) of them, which would >> require 3 months to be completed. > >> As for more information on index, you can

Re: [HACKERS] GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib

2013-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Atri Sharma writes: > I suggested a couple of algorithms to be implemented in MADLib(apart > from K Medoids). You could pick some(or all) of them, which would > require 3 months to be completed. > As for more information on index, you can refer > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_Pos

Re: [HACKERS] GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib

2013-03-26 Thread Atri Sharma
I suggested a couple of algorithms to be implemented in MADLib(apart from K Medoids). You could pick some(or all) of them, which would require 3 months to be completed. As for more information on index, you can refer http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.1 along with the pos

[HACKERS] GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib

2013-03-26 Thread viod
Hello! I'm an IT student, and I would like to apply for the 2013 GSoC. I've been looking at this mailing list for a while now, and I saw a suggestion for GSoC that particularly interested me: implementing the K-medoids clustering in Madlib, as it is supposed to be more efficient than the K-means a