RE: Module submission DateTime::Event::Predict

Brian,
	How are you planning to tackle the prediction piece?  Have any
particular algorithm in mind?  I started speculating after reading your
e-mail, but nothing concrete jumped out at me.  I thought that a purely
numerical date representation would work...using some type of standard
regression for prediction...with conversion from/to DateTime objects
simply for display.  Of course that now seems impractical to me since
timezones and daylight savings irregularities would screw that up in my
mind.

B

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Hann [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 5:40 PM
> To: Steffen Mueller
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Module submission DateTime::Event::Predict
> 
> I thought maybe since I would be working with DateTime objects that
> would be the best fit.
> 
> If that's not the case then I'm completely open to suggestions.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Steffen Mueller
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Brian, hi DateTime people,
> >
> > Perl Authors Upload Server wrote:
> >> The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
> >>
> >>   modid:       DateTime::Event::Predict
> >>   description: Predict next date from a set of dates
> > [...]
> >>     This module would take a set of dates (probably DateTime
objects)
> >>     and find trends in recurrence ('every Thursday', 'every weekend
> >>     day', 'every other week', 'once a month', etc) and also provide
> >>     predictions for the next date most likely to follow the set.
> >>
> >>     If workable I would think this would have any number of
> >>     applications.
> > [...]
> >
> > I asked Dave Rolsky about this. He requested that for namespaces in
the
> > DateTime::* family, you should please clear your request with the
> > DateTime folks via their mailing list which I'm CCing.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Steffen, for the PAUSE admins
> >