Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Weka Web Service Prototype: Reader choice

We are back on track now to delivering Weka as a web service. I finally got a freelancer Java developer to help me implement the required front-end. Everyone wanted to volunteer, noone had any time.

Rather than use a scattergun approach I am interested in getting some reader feedback (yes you the reader) on what specific part of Weka people would like to use first: classifiers, clustering or attribute selection. First come first served.

The basic service will also include the standard file handling in weka, so you can pass ARFF formatted file or just a plain CSV or just a URL to a file. You will know it is ready when I post an example of using the web service.

Once we are happy with a simple web service we can start to ramp up the functionality. I envisage that this service will be blended within other web services or as part of a Mashup.
Once we have demonstrated what the raw service is capable of, we can open the compute floodgates and use EC2 to ramp up and down as required.

Have Fun

Paul