December 2011
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TrendingTopic @debatPSC
Yestarday the Twitter user @debatPSC start to show TT in his area. I’ve designed the algorithm.
It works calculating the mean and the standardĀ deviationĀ of the times a word appears and then calculing the ‘Mahalanobis distance’.
The combination of the Mahalanobis distance, the time a word appears and the length of the word decide what is Trending Topic and what it’s not.
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