Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

The SPMF data mining library v.2.40 is released!

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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Brief report about the 2019 World Conference on the Virtual Reality Industry (WCWRI 2019)

This week-end, I am attending the 2019 World Conference on VR Industry (WCVRI 2019) as an invited guest and panel member (on Monday). In this blog post, I will talk about this event, held in Nanchang, China from the 19th to 21st October at the Primus … Continue reading

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25 years of pattern mining

This year, we are in 2019, and it is already 25 years since Agrawal wrote his seminal papers on frequent itemset mining and association rule mining in 1994. Since then, there has been thousands of papers published on this topic, some about algorithm design, new pattern mining … Continue reading

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Brief report about DAWAK 2019 / DEXA 2019

This week, I am attending the DAWAK 2019 and DEXA 2019 conferences in Linz, Austria from the 26th to the 29th August 2019. In this blog post, I will provide a report about these conferences. About the DAWAK and DEXA conferences DAWAK ( Intern. Conf. on Data Warehousing … Continue reading

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Brief report about the HPCC 2019 conference

In this blog post, I will write a short report about the HPCC 2019 conference (21st IEEE Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications).The HPCC 2019 conference was held in Zhangjiajie, China from the 10th to 12nd August. It is colocated with DSS 2019 and SmartCity 2019, and organized … Continue reading

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What are the milestones in the career of an academic researcher?

Today, I will talk about the different milestones that a researcher may meet during his career. I will start from the first stage, which is graduate studies until reaching the stage of being a permanent researcher working at a research institution … Continue reading

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Funny pictures about data mining / machine learning

Today, I will share a few funny pictures related to data mining and machine learning that I have found online. These pictures comes from various sources (I don’t remember who created them). I will also perhaps add more later on that page Associations between … Continue reading

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What happens after the PhD?

People will work several years to obtain a PhD, sometimes with the goal of becoming a  researcher in academia or the industry, or a lecturer. Some think that getting a PhD is  enough to become a successful researcher. But obtaining a … Continue reading

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A Tribute to Hypercard

In this blog post, I will talk about the first programming language that I have learn, which is HyperTalk. Younger readers may have never heard about it, as it was mostly popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Though, it is not … Continue reading

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A brief report about the IEA AIE 2019 conference

I have just arrived Austria to attend the IEA AIE 2019 conference ( 32nd Intern. Conf. on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems), which is held in Graz from the 9th to 11th July. In this blog post, I will give a report about … Continue reading

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