Monthly Archives: June 2013

How to search for a research advisor by e-mail?

Posted on 2013-06-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about how to search for a research advisor by e-mail. I will talk about this because today, I received an e-mail from a Ph.D student from abroad asking to work with me as … Continue reading →

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What are the steps to implement a data mining algorithm?

Posted on 2013-06-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this post, I will discuss what are the steps that I follow to implement a data mining algorithm.  The subject of this post comes from a question that I have received by e-mail recently, and I think that it … Continue reading →

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Choosing data structures according to what you want to do

Posted on 2013-06-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I write a post about programming. I want to share a simple but important idea for writing optimized code. The idea is to choose data structures according to what you want to do instead of what you want to … Continue reading →

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