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Forecasting Digg.com web traffic
08/17/2009
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How can time series be predicted, for example to ensure adequate capacity planning? In this example, we analyze traffic logs from popular bookmarking website Digg.com, and build a forecasting model. We also explain how the same technique can be applied to other types of data.
Analyzed data:
The following web traffic variables were made available by website Digg.com:
- Date (day)
- Number of front page articles
- Total number of comments
- Total number of diggs
- Average number of comments per article
- Average number of diggs per article
- Standard deviation of comments per article
- Standard deviation of diggs per article
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Forecasting, Web Traffic