Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

How to become a journal or conference reviewer?

Today, I will write a blog post aimed a young researchers, who want to know what is the work of a reviewer in academia, how to become a reviewer of international journals or conferences, and what are the benefits of being a reviewer. What … Continue reading

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If I would do a PhD again, what would I do differently?

Recently, I gave an invited talk at University of Pisa in Italy (online). A PhD student asked me: If you would do a PhD again, what would you do differently? In this blog post, I will answer this question, which … Continue reading

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Analyzing COVID-19 tweets to understand the public opinion

In this blog post, I will talk briefly about how tweets collected on Twitter can be analyzed to understand the public opinion about COVID-19. This is based on the below research paper, that I have recently participated to: Noor, S., … Continue reading

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The Controversy around Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) and related models

Today, I will talk about an interesting topic in academia which is the controversy around ELM (Extreme Learning Machine) and its origins. This has been a hot topic of discussion in the field of machine learning for more than a … Continue reading

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Discovering Alarm Correlation Rules for Network Fault Management (video)

In this blog post, I will share the video of our new paper about analyzing alarms in telecomunication networks presented at the AIOPS 2020 workshop. This work is part of an industrial collaboration project. The motivation for this project is … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Today, I would like to wish all readers of this blog and users of my SPMF data mining software a merry Christmas and a happy new year! This year has been a special year due to the worldwide pandemic with … Continue reading

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Conference Badges: the Best and the Worst

Today, I talk about my collection of conference badges that I have collected since I was a PhD student till today. I have attended over 50 events and have kept all of the conference badges except maybe one or two. … Continue reading

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Real Conferences VS Virtual Conferences

Year 2020 is soon ending, and it has been a quite special year due to the coronavirus pandemic around the world. This has forced many researchers to work from home, and to cancel or change their research travel plans. Moreover, … Continue reading

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How to prepare your thesis defense?

Today, I will talk about an important topic for graduate students, which is how to prepare for your thesis defense. I will explain what should be done to prepare yourself well., and also talk about my experience as student and … Continue reading

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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

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