[Popcon-developers] [GSOC] Popcon data
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 05:56:08PM -0300, Luciano Prestes wrote:
> Hello, my name is Luciano Prestes, and I am a Google Summer of Code
> student. I am working with AppRecommender, it is a package recommender
> system for Debian users.
>
> I was discussing about the project with my mentor and on irc channels
> #debian-devel and #debian-apt, and one proposed dea was to use
> popularity-contest data to help AppRecommender on making better
> recommendations. This recommedation strategy would be a collaborative one,
> where we would use popularity-contest data to generate clusters between
> user packages. In order to do that, we would need the raw popcon data, not
> the current data provided by the website.
>
> I understand the problems with that approach. But the idea is that
> AppRecommender users would only download the pre-processed data from
> server. This process data should contain the clusters and any other useful
> relation between packages, not any data that can identify a Debian user. Is
> there a way to obtain such raw data in order to generate the pre-processed
> data ?
I think that probably the better approach is you writing a patch to
the popcon server that makes the data you need be generated on the popcon server
itself, together with the other data that is already provided (instead
of asking to have access to the raw data).
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