My suggestion would be to try doing it anyway and see how far you get. Even if it's some type of machine learning / AI thing, you might be able to do something like throw your data Alchemy ( demo: http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage/ ) and have it do the "hard part".

You'll learn a lot along the way and you'll then know exactly what you need to focus on more if it totally doesn't work, but you'll likely find enough success in whatever it is that you'll be very motivated to build v2 learning from all your mistakes along the way :)