Category Archives: Data Mining

(video) Mining Locally Trending High Utility Itemsets

Posted on 2020-04-27 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I want to share with you the video presentation that I have prepared for my paper at PAKDD 2020. It presents a new problem where we want to discover locally trending high utility itemsets (LTHUIs). A LTHUI is a set of items purchased by … Continue reading →

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UDML 2020 – Utility Driven Mining and Learning Workshop

Posted on 2020-04-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, This is to let you know the good news that the UDML workshop on Utility Driven Mining and Learning will be back this year, at IEEE ICDM 2020, for the third edition (UDML 2020). This is a good venue to submit your papers about data mining and machine … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Cost-Effective Patterns

Posted on 2020-03-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will share another talk that I have recorded recently. This time, I will explain a new paper from my team about discovering cost-effective patterns using some algorithms called CEPB and CEPN. Mining cost-effective patterns is a new topic in pattern mining … Continue reading →

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(video) Discovering interpretable high utility patterns in databases

Posted on 2020-03-06 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will share a short keynote talk (28 min) about discovering interpretable high utility patterns in data that I have presented at the CCNS 2020 conference. This talk gives an overview of techniques for finding interesting and useful patterns that can … Continue reading →

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(video) Identifying Stable Periodic Frequent Patterns using SPP-Growth

Posted on 2020-03-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I present a video about finding stable periodic patterns in data, and discuss a new algorithm named SPP-Growth for this task. VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/SPPGrowth.mp4 The  SPP-Growth algorithm and datasets for evaluating its performance are available in the SPMF software, which is open-source and programmed in Java. Source code and … Continue reading →

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(Video) Sequence prediction with the CPT and CPT+ Models

Posted on 2020-02-27 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I presents the CPT and CPT+ sequence prediction models in a video. Sequence prediction is an important task in data mining which consists of predicting the next symbols of a sequence. It can be used for example to predict the next word that someone will … Continue reading →

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What is the difference between data mining and machine learning?

Posted on 2019-12-24 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this short blog post, I will answer the question: what is the difference between Machine Learning and Data Mining? I will first explain what is artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining. Then, I will answer the question. What is artificial intelligence … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the ADMA 2019 conference

Posted on 2019-11-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I am also attending the 14th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2019) conference in Dalian, China, from the 21st to 23rd November at Dalian Neusoft University of Information. About ADMA The ADMA conference is focused on data mining and its applications, and is … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the MIWAI 2019 conference

Posted on 2019-11-16 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will report about the MIWAI 2019 conference (13th Multi-disciplinary International conference on Artificial Intelligence), which was held from the 17th to 19th November 2019 at the EDC hotel in Kuala Lampur Malaysia. About the MIWAI conference This is the 13th edition of the MIWAI conference. The conference is called MIWAI since originally, it started as a … Continue reading →

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The SPMF data mining library v.2.40 is released!

Posted on 2019-10-23 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, I am please to announce that a new version of SPMF has just been published (v 2.40). It contains 9 novel algorithms: It also includes some bug fixes and other minor improvements. I did not release a new version of SPMF since a few … Continue reading →

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