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Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger
An introduction to frequent pattern mining
In this blog post, I will give a brief overview of an important subfield of data mining that is called pattern mining. Pattern mining consists of using/developing data mining algorithms to discover interesting, unexpected and useful patterns in databases. Pattern … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Research
Tagged association rule, itemset, itemset mining, pattern mining, sequential patterns
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The importance of sociability for researchers
There are several characteristics required to become a great researcher. Today, I will discuss one of them that is sometimes overlooked. It is sociability. Sociability means to build an maintain relationships with other researchers. The nature of the social relationships … Continue reading
How to encourage data mining researchers to share their source code and datasets?
A few months ago, I wrote a popular blog post on this blog about why it is important to publish source code and datasets for researchers“. I explained several advantages that researchers can get by sharing the source code of … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Research
Tagged data mining, dataset, open-source, source code
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The importance of constraints in data mining
Today, I will discuss an important concept in data mining which is the use of constraints. Data mining is a broad field incorporating many different kind of techniques for discovering unexpected and new knowledge from data. Some main data mining … Continue reading
How to measure the memory usage of data mining algorithms in Java?
Today, I will discuss the topic of accurately evaluating the memory usage of data mining algorithms in Java. I will share several problems that I have discovered with memory measurements in Java for data miners and strategies to avoid these … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Programming, Research
Tagged comparison, data mining, experiment, java, memory, performance
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How to make good looking charts for research papers?
Charts are often used in research papers to present experimental results. Today, I will discuss how to make good looking charts for presenting research results. I will not cover everything about this topic. But I will explain some key ideas. … Continue reading
How to search for a research advisor by e-mail?
In this blog post, I will talk about how to search for a research advisor by e-mail. I will talk about this because today, I received an e-mail from a Ph.D student from abroad asking to work with me as … Continue reading
What are the steps to implement a data mining algorithm?
In this post, I will discuss what are the steps that I follow to implement a data mining algorithm. The subject of this post comes from a question that I have received by e-mail recently, and I think that it … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Programming
Tagged algorithm, data mining, design, implementation, programming
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Choosing data structures according to what you want to do
Today, I write a post about programming. I want to share a simple but important idea for writing optimized code. The idea is to choose data structures according to what you want to do instead of what you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Programming
Tagged association rules, bitset, optimization, programming, red-black tree, topkrules
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Analyzing the source code of the SPMF data mining software
Hi everyone, In this blog post, I will discuss how I have applied an open-source tool that is named Code Analyzer ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/codeanalyze-gpl/ ) to analyze the source code of my open-source data mining software named SPMF. I have applied … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Java, open-source, Pattern Mining, Programming, spmf
Tagged data mining, java, open-source, software, spmf
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