Recently, I have been working on improving the SPMF data mining software. Something good about SPMF is that it has a simple user interface. But as SPMF has evolved with more and more algorithms, the list of algorithms in the software has become very long and it may be not so easy to browse through the list of algorithms. Thus, I have started to think about upgrading the user interface to make it more user-friendly. Here is some new prototype welcome window for SPMF that I am working on:
This window provides access to all the main features of SPMF through a centralized screen. Thus, the user can clearly focus on the different tasks such as generating data, or choosing a data mining or pattern mining algorithm, or viewing and transforming data. When the user will click on “View and transform data” for example, he will access only the algorithms and tools for viewing and transforming data.
I think that this type of interface can be an improvement over the existing user interface. However, for now, this is only a prototype and I am working on putting this all up together, and testing. I will not release a new interface for SPMF until I am sure that everything works well and that it is good. And I might also leave the option of choosing between the traditional user interface and the new user interface.
If you have any ideas or suggestions to make this better, please leave me a comment below or email me! I think that if work on this user interface go well, maybe it could be released early next year.
Again, thanks for all users of the SPMF pattern mining library for your support!
