Category Archives: Big data

Introduction to frequent subranking mining

Rankings are made in many fields, as we naturally tend to rank objects, persons or things, in different contexts. For example, in a singing or a sport competition, some judges will rank participants from worst to best and give prizes to … 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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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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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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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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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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PAKDD 2018 Conference (a brief report)

In this blog post, I will discuss the PAKDD 2018 conference (Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), in Melbourne Australia, from the 3rd June to the 6th June 2018. About the PAKDD conference PAKDD is an important conference in the data science / data mining research community, mainly attended by researchers from … Continue reading

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China International BigData Industry Expo 2018 (a brief report)

This week I have attended the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2018 in Guiyang, China. I will describe this event and some of the key things that I have observed so far. What is the China International Big Data Industry Expo? It is an international event targeted toward the industry and focused on big data, which is aimed … Continue reading

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