From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2007-04-21T01:41:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing myself

swanand deodhar wrote:
> I am focussing on building a ETL and Data mining framework in Ruby.

That is quite a tall order, IMHO. I would suggest having a look at Weka:

  http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

I used it last quarter in my graduate Data Mining class. It is quite 
powerful and, more importantly, was written collaboratively by active 
researchers in the field. It also has a big following in the academic 
world.

The best part is that I didn't have to put my programmer's hat on every 
time I wanted to play around with a statistical algorithm in the 
textbook because, usually, it was already implemented in Weka. :-)

Although Weka is written in Java, I think you could build a Ruby 
interface atop it with JRuby. However, I am not familiar with the rules 
of GSoC, so making a light abstraction layer above existing software 
might not be allowed?

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