Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

How to call SPMF from another Java program as an external program?

This is a short blog post where I will explain how to call SPMF as an external program from another Java program to execute an algorithm. Before we start, it should be said that there are multiple ways to use … Continue reading

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New videos about pattern mining

Today, I share with you some new videos that I have recorded about pattern mining. The first videos gives an introduction to some important topics: sequential pattern mining, frequent subgraph mining and high utility itemset mining, while the lastvideo explains … Continue reading

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SPMF 2.52 is released

This is just a short blog post to let you know that a new version of the SPMF library has been released, called version 2.52. This new version contains two new algorithms for high utility itemset mining and one for … Continue reading

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Typhoon Path Prediction using Deep Learning

Typhoons can be very destructive. Predicting their paths is important to be prepared when they arrive. In this blog post, I will talk briefly about an applied research topic which is to predict the paths of typhoons. This blog post … Continue reading

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Brief report about ADMA 2021

This week, I have attended the 16th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2021) conference, which is held online due to the COVID pandemic. What is ADMA ? ADMA is a medium-scale conference that focus on data science and its … Continue reading

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(video) TKQ : Top-K Quantitative High Utility Itemset Mining

In this blog post, I will share a short video about a new algorithms for top-k quantitative high utility itemset mining, which will be presented at ADMA 2021. Here is the link to watch the paper presentation:https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/poerm_video.mp4 And here is the … Continue reading

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How many association rules in a dataset?

This is a very short blog post about the calculation of the number of possible association rules in a dataset. I will assume that you know already what is association rule mining. Let’s say that you have a dataset that … Continue reading

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Serious issues with Time Series Anomaly Detection Research

In this short blog post, I will talk about some serious issues that have been raised about many studies on anomaly detection for time series. More precisely, it was recently shown that a lot of papers on anomaly detection for … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hi everyone! This is just a short message to wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year to all the readers of this blog and users of the SPMF software! I will take a short break for a few … Continue reading

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Brief report about IEEE ICDM 2021

This blog post provides a brief report about the IEEE ICDM2021 conference (International Conference on Data Mining), which was held virtually from New Zealand from the 7th December to the 10th December 2021. What is ICDM? ICDM is one of … Continue reading

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