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Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger
Report about the 13th ADMA conference (ADMA 2018)
I have recently attended the 13th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2018) in Nanjing, China from the 16th to 18th October 2018. In this blog post, I will give a brief report about this conference. What is the ADMA conference? ADMA is a … Continue reading
How to calculate Erdös numbers? and co-authorship relationships in academia
There exists many ways of analyzing the relationships between co-authors in Academia. In this blog post, I will talk about a fun measure called the “Erdös number“, which has been proposed in the field of mathematics in the 90s. The Erdos number of a person … Continue reading
How journal paper similarity checking works? (CrossCheck)
In this blog post, I will talk about the recent trends of journal editors rejecting papers because of their similarity with other papers as detected by the CrossCheck system. I will explain how this system works and talk about its impact, benefits … Continue reading
(video) Minimal Periodic Frequent Itemset with PFPM
This is a video presentation of the paper “PFPM: Discovering Periodic Frequent Patterns with Novel Periodicity Measures” about periodic pattern mining using PFPM. It is part of my new series of videos about data mining algorithms VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/pfpm.mp4 (link to download the … Continue reading
Posted in Big data, Data Mining, Data science
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Expensive Academic Conferences – the case of ICDM
I was recently thinking of attending IEEE ICDM 2018 (International Conference on Data Mining) in Singapore, next month. It is a top 5 data mining conference. According to my schedule, I could attend it for 2 days, and since Singapore is close to China, it … Continue reading
Posted in Big data, Conference, Data Mining
Tagged big data, conference, data mining, expensive, icdm, kdd, registration fee
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Skills needed for a data scientists? (comments on the HBR article)
Recently, I have read an article of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) website about data sciences skills for businesses. This article proposes to categorize skills related to data on a 2×2 matrix where skills are labelled as useful VS not useful, and … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, data, data mining, data science, skills
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(video) Minimal High Utility Itemset Mining with MinFHM
This is a video presentation of the paper “Mining Minimal High Utility Itemsets” about high utility itemset mining using MinFHM. It is the first video of a series of videos that will explain various data mining algorithms. VIDEO LINK : https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/minfhm.mp4 More information … Continue reading
Periodic patterns in Web log time series
Recently, I have analysed trends about visitors on this blog. I have made two observations. First, there is about 500 to 1000 visitors per day. For this, I want to thank you all for reading and commenting on the blog. Second, if we … Continue reading
Posted in Big data, Data Mining, Data science, Time series
Tagged data, periodic pattern, periodicity, time series, web, web log
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What I dislike about academia
In this blog post, I will talk about academia. There are numerous things that I like about academia, and I really enjoy working in academia. But for this blog post, I will try to talk about what I don’t like in academia to … Continue reading
News about the data mining blog
This data mining blog has been created more than five years ago and has had a considerable success with more than 800,000 views. For this, I want to thank all the readers. Today, I will announce some important news related to this … Continue reading