What algorithm should I use for trending detection?

2 pointsaazeemazhar2 comments

What algorithm should I use for detecting trending items? (Whether that is toics, or articles)

I am tempted to just look for articles read which have a moving average period M which is high than their moving average period N. (Where M is smaller than N).

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I would suggest checking out "Programming Collective Intelligence" and review their chapter on decision trees. That way you would be able to build a 'model' of 'trends' based on "reads" per "time quotient" and use that for your classifier.

thanks. slaps head. goes to own library.

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