New Timeline

The fallout of the change to Hadoop has finally permeated the project and yesterday a new timeline was thought up. It's also more to my mentor's liking. (Dr. Raghavan is mentoring me on this project) Most specifically it features tiered use case subgoals that are evenly interspersed throughout the timeline. This enables a more smooth analysis of progress of the project as it progresses. And without further ado the new timeline :

Based on four use cases:

1) Topic Analysis: Given a set of Tweets what are the main topics and who is talking about which one?
2) Group Identification: Which people talk/listen to each other? Who are talking about the same things? What are the people in a certain location talking about?
3) Domain Specific Questions: Answer questions specific to a specific domain, in this case politics and business. ex: Who wants to buy what? Who likes which candidate?
4) News Prediction: Within a given domain what are the late breaking stories?

Updated timeline:

Week 1:
-Finish Twitter streaming monitor development
-Write social media monitor abstract class
-Begin developing keyphrase extraction inference rule
Week 2:
-Finish keyphrase extraction implementation
-Write abstract inference rule class
-Write abstract NLP library class
-Documentation/Refactor
Week 3:
-Write inference rules for keyphrase indexing, ranking, and cooccurence analysis
-Begin designing interface for Topic Analysis application
Week 4:
-Finish Topic Analysis interface
-Documentation/Refactor
-Present App for Use Case 1
-Begin Writing Twitter user monitor
Week 5:
-Finish Twitter user monitor
-Update social media monitor class as needed (perhaps add intermediaries)
-Write retweet inference rule
-Begin writing K-means clustering Mahout wrapper
Week 6:
-Finish K-means
-Write geographic tagging inference rule
-Develop Interface for Geographic Identification task
Week 7:
-Documentation/Refactor
-Present App for Use Case 2
-Develop several inference rules for political and business domains
Week 8:
-Develop more inference rules for political and business domains
-Develop interface for domain specific question answering
-Documentation
Week 9:
-Refactor
-Present App for Use Case 3
-Develop trend analysis inference rule
Week 10:
-Develop trust metrics for users
-Develop trust metric for rules
-Write Google News monitor
Week 11:
-Documentation/Refactor
-Combine trust metrics and trend analysis to predict breaking news
Week 12:
-Write interface for Story Predictor
-Write feedback inference rule
Week 13:
-Documentation/Refactor
-Present App for Use Case 4