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Re:A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend ... by sanxiyn on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @10:38AM (#4753712)
The algorithm itself seems very simple. The paper quotes "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data". The surprising thing is the simple algorithm works great given large data.
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