I think the most simple way to do this woulds be to bucket/group-by the timestamp and then look for the most frequent search/item/product in each bucket. Fairly simple MapReduce job.
Josh On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:52 PM, 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 > -- Twitter: @jpatanooga Solution Architect @ Cloudera hadoop: http://www.cloudera.com blog: http://jpatterson.floe.tv
