Category Archives: Big data

Introduction to the K-Means clustering algorithm (with Java code)

Posted on 2016-12-27 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will introduce the popular data mining task of clustering (also called cluster analysis).  I will explain what is the goal of clustering, and then introduce the popular K-Means algorithm with an example. Moreover, I will briefly explain how an open-source Java implementation of … Continue reading →

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Introduction to time series mining with SPMF

Posted on 2016-12-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This blog post briefly explain how time series data mining can be performed with the Java open-source data mining library SPMF (v.2.06).  It first explain what is a time series and then discuss how data mining can be performed on time series. What is … Continue reading →

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Discovering hidden patterns in texts using SPMF

Posted on 2016-09-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This tutorial will explain how to analyze text documents to discover complex and hidden relationships between words.  We will illustrate this with a Sherlock Holmes novel. Moreover we will explain how hidden patterns in text can be used to recognize the author of a … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the Dexa 2016 and Dawak 2016 conferences

Posted on 2016-09-06 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I have been attending the DEXA 2016 and DA‎WAK 2016 conferences, in Porto, Portugal, from the 4th to 8th September 2016, to present three papers. In this blog post, I will give a brief report about these conferences. About these … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining conference (MLDM 2016)

Posted on 2016-07-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will provide a brief report about the 12th Intern. Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM 2016), that I have attended from the 18th to 20th July 2016 in Newark, USA. First I have to say, that I … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the 16th Industrial Conference on Data mining 2016 (ICDM 2016)

Posted on 2016-07-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will provide a brief report about the 16th Industrial Conference on Data mining 2016, that I have attended from the 13 to 14 July 2016 in New York, USA. About the conference This conference is an established conference in … Continue reading →

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The top journals and conferences in data mining / data science

Posted on 2016-07-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

A key question for data mining and data science researchers is to know what are the top journals and conferences in the field, since it is always best to publish in the most popular journals or conferences. In this blog post, … Continue reading →

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An introduction to periodic pattern mining

Posted on 2016-07-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post I will give an introduction to the discovery of periodic patterns in data. Mining periodic patterns is an important data mining task as patterns may periodically appear in all kinds of data, and it may be desirable to find them … Continue reading →

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An Introduction to Sequence Prediction

Posted on 2016-06-23 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give an introduction to the task of sequence prediction,  a popular data mining/machine learning task, which consist of predicting the next symbol of a sequence of symbols. This task is important as it have many … Continue reading →

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Finding a Data Scientist Unicorn or building a Data Science Team?

Posted on 2016-04-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In recent months/years, many blog posts have been trending on the social Web about what is a “data scientist“, as this term has become very popular.  As there is much hype about this term, some people have even jokingly said that … Continue reading →

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