Le Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:29:04AM -0800, Rudi Cilibrasi a écrit : > We would need: > > 1) The total number of machines, M, using popcon. > 2) A count of machines that have package i installed F(i) for all packages i > 3) A count of machines that have both package i and j installed F(i,j) > for all packages i, j
>From reading popcon.debian.org, I have the impression that one has to be DD to access the full database. I am also very interested in mining popcon, especially because it may involve similar tools as what my research is needing those days. Shall we enquire wether recommendation plus GPG-signing of a non-disclosure agreement would allow us to access the data? But maybe before this, we should read what is promised to the participants of popcon. If it is written "DD only", whatever the goodwill of the popcon admins, we can not ask… (And were I popcon developper, this is the kind of thing I would promise to the participants.). > Using these three statistics, we can compute something that can relate > the typical use of one package to another and put packages in larger groups > for context. This is the type of analysis that libcomplearn and libqsearch > enable [1]. And draw post-genomic-style networks… I would really enjoy… Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
