Trend Engine V0.73
With the 73th version of the Kungle trend engine it is now possible to track a meaningful trend again.
It was difficult to rebuild a functional trend prediction after the decision to remove the search engine results from my calculations.
Cause of the decision:
The search terms got more and more insignificant. For Example on Sep. 29 (The Tsunami Day) the highest ranked search phrase was “pink toed tarantula”. Other examples were “who is mysterion” or “out of memory at line 130″ !
The Trend Analysis is now extremely fast. The response time is about 30 minutes after an occurrence. In contrary, searchengine results are delayed up to four hours!
I’m now using microblogs, blogs, and newsfeeds as datasource.
The Trend Score is calculated by following factors:
- Time of publication
- Frequency of occurrence
- Subject significance (by Dictionary)
- Subject insignificance (by Dictionary)
- Registration Date
- Publisher significance
Votes:
I have added a voting mechanism to compare the trend results with my readers opinions. To offer an incentive I have added a Trend bonus for every vote.
Next Steps:
Dependent on the success of Kungle.de and the related earnings:
- Switch to bigger hardware.
- Improve the topic identification.
- Deep text analysis.
- Global Impact calculation
Improved user interaction:
Kungle.de is a Scala/Lift Project based on HTML and Ajax. Next Steps would require to build Restful Web Service and a Rich Internet Application. for a better user experience.
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