<shamless-self-promotion> two of my most popular blog posts are on this exactly!
a trending topics algorithm (note: not a _frequent_ topics algorithm, a _trending_ topics algorithm) http://matpalm.com/blog/2010/04/27/trending-topics-in-tweets-about-cheese-part1/ and implemented in pig http://matpalm.com/blog/2010/05/01/trending-topics-in-tweets-about-cheese-part2/ though it doesn't have anything to with mahout... mat </shameless-self-promotion> On 18 June 2011 10:52, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask but how would I go about finding > trending data over a certain period of time. > > For example: http://www.ebay.com has a section "Trends on eBay" that is > updated daily. I was wondering how this can be accomplished using Mahout (if > possible) > > For input I have: > - user searches by day > - titles of products purchased by day > > Would this require some sort of clustering? classification? > > Thanks in advance >
