Category Archives: Big data

Brief report about DAWAK 2019 / DEXA 2019

Posted on 2019-08-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I am attending the DAWAK 2019 and DEXA 2019 conferences in Linz, Austria from the 26th to the 29th August 2019. In this blog post, I will provide a report about these conferences. About the DAWAK and DEXA conferences DAWAK ( Intern. Conf. on Data Warehousing … Continue reading →

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Funny pictures about data mining / machine learning

Posted on 2019-08-08 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will share a few funny pictures related to data mining and machine learning that I have found online. These pictures comes from various sources (I don’t remember who created them). I will also perhaps add more later on that page Associations between … Continue reading →

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Correlation does not imply causation

Posted on 2019-06-10 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

There is a well known principle in statistics that correlation does not imply causation. It means that even if we observe that two variables behave in the same way, we should not conclude that the behavior of one of those variables … Continue reading →

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China International BigData Industry Expo 2019 (a brief report)

Posted on 2019-05-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week I am attending the 2019 China International Big Data Industry Expo (CIBD 2019), held in Guiyang, China. I will report on the event on this blog. The event is from May 26-29. Why this event is important? The China International Big Data Industry Expo is … Continue reading →

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MLDM 2019… still not in New York! …and not published by Springer!

Posted on 2019-04-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

A few years ago, I decided to give a try at the MLDM 2016 conference, which I had never attended. It was not a bad conference, although quite small and the registration is quite expensive for a conference (about 650 euros). I submitted … Continue reading →

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The PAKDD 2019 conference (a brief report)

Posted on 2019-04-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This year, I am attending the PAKDD 2019 conference (23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), in Macau, China, from the 14th to the 17th April 2019. In this blog post, I will provide information about the conference. About the PAKDD conference PAKDD is one of the most important … Continue reading →

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The best data mining mailing lists (for researchers)

Posted on 2019-03-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will list a few useful mailing lists related to data mining and big data. Subscribing to these mailing list is useful for PhD students and researchers, as many jobs, conferences, special issues and other opportunities are advertised on these mailing lists. It is … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Sequential Rules with RuleGrowth

Posted on 2018-12-26 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the paper “Mining Partially-Ordered Sequential Rules Common to Multiple Sequences” about discovering sequential rules in sequences using the RuleGrowth algorithm. VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/rulegrowth.mp4 More information about the RuleGrowth algorithm are provided in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Wu, C.-W., Tseng, V.S., Cao, L., Nkambou, R. (2015). Mining Partially-Ordered Sequential Rules Common to Multiple … Continue reading →

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(video) Minimal Correlated High Utility Itemsets with FCHM

Posted on 2018-12-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the paper “Mining Correlated High-Utility Itemsets Using the bond Measure” about correlated high utility pattern mining using FCHM.  VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/FCHM_correlated_itemsets.mp4 More information about the FCHM algorithm are provided in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Zhang, Y., Lin, J. C.-W., … Continue reading →

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Report about the ICGEC 2018 conference

Posted on 2018-12-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have recently attended the ICGEC 2018 conference (12th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing) from December 14-17, 2018 in Changzhou, China. In this blog post, I will describe activities that I have attended at the conference. About the ICGEC conference IGCEC is … Continue reading →

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