Tag Archives: data mining

A Brief Report about ACIIDS 2021 (13th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems)

In this blog post, I will give a brief report about the ACIIDS 2021 conference, that I am attending from April 7–10, 2021. What is ACIIDS? ACIIDS is an international conference focusing on intelligent information and database systems. The conference … Continue reading

Posted in artificial intelligence, Big data, Conference, Data Mining | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

New version of SPMF (2.44): 4 new algorithms, datasets and features

Today, I am happy to announce that a new version of the SPMF open-source data mining software is released (v. 2.44). This is the download page. This new version was made possible due to several contributors. What is new? New … Continue reading

Posted in Data Mining, Data science, open-source, Pattern Mining, spmf, Utility Mining | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

An introduction to frequent subgraph mining

In this blog post, I will give an introduction to an interesting data mining task called frequent subgraph mining, which consists of discovering interesting patterns in graphs (a pattern mining task). This task is important since data is naturally represented as graph in many domains (e.g. … Continue reading

Posted in Big data, Data Mining, Pattern Mining | Tagged , , , , , , | 12 Comments

The importance of explainable data science and machine learning models

In this blog post, I will talk about an important concept, which is often overlooked in data mining and machine learning: explainability. To discuss this topic, it is necessary to first remember what is the goal of data mining and machine learning. The goal of data mining is … Continue reading

Posted in artificial intelligence, Big data, Machine Learning | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Brief Report about IEEE ICDM 2020

In this blog post, I will talk about the IEEE ICDM 2020 conference that I have attended virtually. The conference was supposed to be held in Italy but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was held online. About the ICDM … Continue reading

Posted in Big data, Conference, Data Mining, Machine Learning | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Brief Report about the PKDD 2020 conference

In this blog post, I will talk about the ECML PKDD 2020 conference, that was held from the 14th to 18th September 2020. This post will be a little bit brief because I did not attend the whole conference but … Continue reading

Posted in artificial intelligence, Big data, Conference, Data Mining | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

A brief report about the IEA AIE 2020 conference

In this blog post, I will write a brief report about the 33rd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA AIE 2020), held in Kitakyushu, Japan from the 22nd to 25th September 2020. What … Continue reading

Posted in artificial intelligence, Conference, Data Mining | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

An Introduction to Data Mining

In this blog post, I will introduce the topic of data mining. The goal is to give a general overview of what is data mining. What is data mining? Data mining is a field of research that has emerged in the 1990s, … Continue reading

Posted in Big data, Data Mining, Data science | Tagged , , , , | 23 Comments

Five recent books on pattern mining

In this blog post, I will list a few interesting and recent books on the topic of pattern mining (discovering interesting patterns in data). This mainly lists books from the last 5 years. High utility pattern mining: Theory, Applications and algorithms (2019). This … Continue reading

Posted in Big data, Data Mining, Pattern Mining, Utility Mining | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

The PAKDD 2020 conference (a brief report)

In this report, I will talk about the 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2020), from the 11th to 14th May 2020. The PAKDD conference PAKDD is a top international conference on data mining / big data in the Pacific-Asia part of the world. … Continue reading

Posted in Conference, Data Mining, Data science | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments