Thank You Isabel. I think you have said it. I have to find out features and create vectors.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Isabel Drost <isa...@apache.org> wrote: > On 04.10.2011 Sarath P R wrote: > > I am monitoring packet flow in a Network Interface . Now i want to make > > some predictions. > > What kind of prediction do you want to make? > > > > Actually i am not sure about what algorithm i should use > > and what kind of predictions i may need. I just want to know is it > possible > > to classify network packets using Mahout Classification algorithm. Can > > anyone make some comments. > > The classification algorithms of Mahout are based on the idea of > classifying > items that have to be represented as multidimensional vectors and as a > result > are not bound to be used for just one domain. > > Put more simply: First think of what kinds of predictions you want to make. > Then > think of features that contain information on which prediction is more > likely. > Code these features as vectors and continue from there. > > A really nice explanation of this concept is explained in the Mahout in > Action > book. You can also take a quick look at the following slides for a general > outline: > > > http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/konrad.rieck/pubs.html > -- Thank You Sarath P Ramachandran +91 99 95 02 4287
