Jacob Ayienda wrote:
It seems I have to scrap the entire application based on these new information.
Would be a shame if you did :-( There are many different ways to achieve what you are trying to do, machine learning is just one of them. The way i read your first mail, you had something that sort of worked already ? Anyway take it as an (excellent) opportunity to learn something new - personally I'm working hard on improving my skills in machine learning, and in that regards I can highly recommend Stanford's course by Andrew Ng - available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stanford+andrew+machine+learning
Apparently I designed the application for a MSC student researching the impact of social networks in Kenya
Interesting - have the research been completed ? and do you know if there is a report available somewhere ? .. webmike