If the user follows some pattern in his check-ins and deviates form this
pattern I want NuPIC to indicate anomalous behaviour. So in case a user is
trying to fake his location it may be verified in some manner.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> It is possible, but what are you trying to get out of the analysis?
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> Matt Taylor
> OS Community Flag-Bearer
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>
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Manal Bhingardeve
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Will NuPIC produce some results for those users with >500 check-ins?
> which
> > is about 25 per month.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Ok, so I'm assuming a bit here, but...
> >>
> >> 107092 users with 6442892 total checkins over the course of (about) 20
> >> months.... then the average checkings per user per years is
> >> (6442892/107092) / 20 = 3 checkins per month.
> >>
> >> If you want to analyze users individually with only 3 checkings per
> >> month, that is not a very fast stream of data. I'm not sure you're
> >> going to get anything out of it with NuPIC.
> >>
> >> However, if you wanted to try to analyze population trends in the
> >> complete data set over time, it might be worthwhile to try with over
> >> 300K total checkins per month, but you wouldn't be able to get any
> >> analysis out of it for individual users.
> >>
> >> Perhaps you could group the users by geographic location to increase
> >> the number of data points in a model if you aren't interested in
> >> complete population analysis?
> >>
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> >> OS Community Flag-Bearer
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> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Manal Bhingardeve
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Hi Matt,
> >> >
> >> > I would like to get indications of anomalous behaviour.
> >> > The patterns should be isolated to each person.
> >> > The data consists of check-ins of users over the period of Feb. 2009 -
> >> > Oct.
> >> > 2010
> >> > These are some details about the data.
> >> > 107092  : users
> >> > 6442892  : check-ins
> >> > 60.162215665  : average check-ins
> >> > no of users : no of check-ins greater than
> >> > 17  : >2000
> >> > 244  : >1500
> >> > 475  : >1000
> >> > 1488  : >500
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Manal
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:48 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Manal,
> >> >>
> >> >> Some questions...
> >> >>
> >> >> 1. What would you like to get out of NuPIC? Predictions of future
> >> >> checkins? Indictions of anomalous behavior?
> >> >> 2. Should detected patterns be isolated to each person or detected
> >> >> from the population as a whole?
> >> >> 3. How often do checkins occur?
> >> >> 4. How much past data is available (for training)?
> >> >>
> >> >> ---------
> >> >> Matt Taylor
> >> >> OS Community Flag-Bearer
> >> >> Numenta
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Manal Bhingardeve
> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> > Hi,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I wanted to use CLA to find patterns in user check-ins for location
> >> >> > based
> >> >> > services.
> >> >> > The data consists of check-in details for multiple users with the
> >> >> > following
> >> >> > fields user_id, check-in time, latitude, longitude, location id.
> >> >> > Would the CLA be suited for this kind of an application and if so,
> >> >> > could
> >> >> > I
> >> >> > get some help with the swarming process, more specifically as to
> how
> >> >> > the
> >> >> > geospatial encoder could be used.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks,
> >> >> > Manal
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
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