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Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger
Report about the DEXA 2018 and DAWAK 2018 conferences
This week, I am attending the DEXA 2018 (29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications) and the DAWAK 2018 (20th Intern. Conf. on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery) conferences from the 3rd to 6th September in Regensburg, Germany. Those two conferences are well established European conferences dedicated mainly to research on database and data mining. These conferences are always collocated. … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, conference, data, data mining, data science, dawak, dexa
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China lead in mobile payment and services
In this blog post, I will talk about the wide adoption of mobile payment and mobile services in China. I have been working in China for several years and I am still quite amazed by everything that can be done with a cellphone there. China’s mobile payment systems A fundamental difference with … Continue reading
Why doing a Ph.D.?
In this blog post, I will answer the question: Why doing a Ph.D.? This is an important question for several students that are doing a bachelor or master degree,. Taking a good decision is important as doing a Ph.D requires several years … Continue reading
How to review a research paper?
Today, I will discuss the task of reviewing papers in academia. I will discuss why it is important to review papers, and then give tips about how to review papers and also talk about what a reviewer should do and should not do. This topic is important … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Research
Tagged article, journal article, research paper, review, reviewer
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Report about the KDD 2018 conference
This week, I am participating to the KDD 2018 ( 24th ACM SIGKDD Intern. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), in London, UK from the 19th to 23rd August 2018. The KDD conference is an international conference, established 24 years ago. It is the top conference in the field of data mining / … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, conference, data mining, data science, kdd
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The future of pattern mining
In this blog post, I will talk about the future of research on pattern mining. I will also discuss some lessons learnt from the decades of research in this field and talk about research opportunities. What is the state of research on pattern mining? Over the last … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Pattern Mining
Tagged big data, data mining, data science, pattern mining
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An interview with P. Fournier-Viger about AI and data mining
I recently was interviewed by Djavan de Clercq, a graduate student from Tsinghua University, working on Machine Learning and Optimization. The interview can be read here (on LinkedIn). I answer ten questions related to data mining and AI research. —-Philippe Fournier-Viger is a professor of Computer Science and also the founder of the open-source data mining software SPMF, offering … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, big data, data mining, interview
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Top 10 mistakes made by young researchers
Today, I will discuss 10 mistakes that some researchers do in their early career. 1. Not building social relationships with other researchers. Although one can do research by himself, there are many advantages to collaborating with others such as: getting the feedback of others, writing more articles, … Continue reading
A Model for Football Pass Prediction (source code + dataset)
In this blog post, I will discuss the data challenge of the Machine Learning for Sport Analytics workshop (MLSA 2018) at PKDD 2018. The challenge consisted of predicting the receivers of football passes (pass prediction). I will first briefly describe the data and then … Continue reading
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Tagged data, data mining, football, mlsa, prediction
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Writing a research paper (6) – presenting data with tables
Tables are often used in research papers to present data. In this blog post, I will explain when tables should be used, discuss common mistakes when using tables, and give a few tips to improve tables. When tables should be used? Tables … Continue reading