Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Call for papers: UDML 2024 workshop @ PAKDD 2024

I am glad to announce that the 6th UDML 2024 workshop on Utility-Driven Mining and Learning will be held next year at the PAKDD 2024 conference. IMPORTANT DATES PUBLICATIONS All the accepted papers will be invited for publication in a … Continue reading

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A new survey paper on episode mining!

I am pleased to announce today that my collaborators and I have published a new survey paper about episode mining to give an introduction to this nice and interesting subfield of pattern mining. To our knowledge this is the most … Continue reading

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How to write answers to reviewers for a journal using LaTeX?

Today, I will explain how to write the answer to reviewers for an academic journal using Latex. The advantage of using Latex instead of a software like Microsoft Word to write answers to reviewers is that it allows using all … Continue reading

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TexWorks: How to add a command to change the text color (using a script)

In this blog post, I will show how to add a script (commands) to TexWorks for adding a color to your Latex document. This is easy and can be used also for other types of commands. 1) In TexWorks, go … Continue reading

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KNN Interactive demo in your browser

Today, I want to show you a new interactive demo of the KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors) algorithm that I have added to my website. It is designed to be used for teaching purpose to illustrate how the K-Nearest Neighbors algorithm works. … Continue reading

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K-Means Interactive Demo in your browser

In this blog post, I introduce a new interactive tool for showing a demonstration of the K-Means algorithm for students (for teaching purposes). The K-Means clustering demo tool can be accessed here: philippe-fournier-viger.com/tools/kmeans_demo.php The K-Means demo, first let you enter … Continue reading

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Busy times

Hi all, I just write a quick message to say that I did not write on the blog recently due to my very busy schedule recently. However, everything is going well. I will be back on the blog with more … Continue reading

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The MDLM 2023 conference: a scam?

Today, I will talk about the MDLM 2023 conference (International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining). Several years ago, I have attended MLDM 2016 (report here) because at that time it was published by Springer. But I was unhappy … Continue reading

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Fake reviews…

Today, I would like to talk about something that happens sometimes in academic journals, which is fake reviews. While many reviewers spend time to write reviews that provide a fair evaluation of papers, some reviewers have a very unethical behavior … Continue reading

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SPMF: upcoming feature: The Memory Viewer

Today, I would like to introduce an upcoming feature that will be released in the next version of SPMF (v. 2.60). It is a tool called the Memory Viewer. This tool is very simple yet useful for investigating the performance … Continue reading

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