Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Is the next artificial intelligence winter coming?

In recent years, there have been an increased interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is due  in part to some advances for training and building neural networks, which have allowed to solve some difficult problems with greater success. This has lead … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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(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

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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

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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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(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

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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

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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

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