Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Test your knowledge of sequential rule mining!

Do you know about sequential rule mining? It is a popular task in pattern mining that aims at finding rules in sequences. In this blog post, I will give a list of 8 questions and answers to evaluate your knowledge … Continue reading

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Having a good posture for working at the computer is important!

Today, I write a short blog post. I will not talk about data mining, but I instead want to remind all of you my readers about the importance of having a good posture when working on the computer. This is … Continue reading

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Test your knowledge about periodic pattern mining

Periodic pattern mining is a data mining technique used to discover periodic patterns in a sequence of events. Algorithms for periodic pattern mining have many applications. I have prepared 10 questions to evaluate your knowledge of periodic pattern mining. You … Continue reading

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An Interactive Demo of The Apriori algorithm

I have created a new website for students that provides an interactive demo of the Apriori algorithm. It allows to run Apriori in your browser and see the results step by step. The website is here: Apriori Algorithm Demo To … Continue reading

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What are the applications of sequential pattern mining?

Sequential pattern mining (SPM) is a data mining technique that aims to discover patterns or subsequences that occur frequently in sequential data. Sequential data can be found in various domains such as customer transactions, web browsing, text analysis, and bioinformatics. … Continue reading

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Test your knowledge about sequential pattern mining!

Sequential pattern mining is a data mining technique used to discover frequent sequences or patterns in data. I have prepared a short test of 10 questions to evaluate your knowledge of sequential pattern mining. The test is not very hard. … Continue reading

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Test your knowledge about pattern mining!

Today, I publish a small quiz to test your knowledge about pattern mining. There are 10 questions, which are then followed by the answers. Those questions are not very hard 😉 How many can you get right? Questions Answers Tell … Continue reading

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Visualizing the item frequency distribution of pattern mining datasets

In this blog post, I will explain a quick and easy way of visualizing the frequency distribution of items in a dataset in SPMF format for pattern mining. To do this, we will use a new online tool that I … Continue reading

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An Online Tool to Draw FP-Trees

This blog post is to introduce a new tool made of HTML5 and JavaScript for drawing FP-trees, which you can access here: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/tools/draw_fptree.php If you are not familiar with FP-trees, the FP-tree is a data structure used in the field of … Continue reading

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A yet more efficient high utility itemset mining algorithm (HAMM, to appear in IEEE TKDE)

Today, I will share the good news that I have participated as co-author in a paper proposing a new algorithm for high utility itemset mining called HAMM that is very efficient, and outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithm. This is not an … Continue reading

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