# Modelling small data set problem

I have a small dataset (20 instances per 13 classes). The 13 classes are human users from their behavior features, I have to classify if an unseen behavior feature is of a user or not.

Data: These features are basically mouse events (x, y, timestamp) in a sequence upto 200 elements-long. And there is also an associated bi-gram key press time which has been binned into a range of 200 bins with 1 ms width. A user would have 20 events as [[[x, y, time]...], [0,0,0,..,1,2,0,3,..]]

Problem: I have tried several statistical techniques, and of all, SVMs with linear kernel are giving the best result, but the result is far from decent. I have trained an SVM per user, and the average false acceptance rate is only 25%, with false rejection rate around 7%.

I am not a seasoned data scientist and just breaking into the field, what are the ways I can go around improving the solution? (In terms of algorithms, technqiues to try) I have already tried K-means, Distance-based, random forests. Is my data too small to even capture the hypothesis? Can methods like one-shot learning be applied.

Background: I tried to create a heatmap of the mouse-movements, and there does seem to be patterns tied to users. Here are two plots for different users.

Here's a sample of the dataset