Category Archives: Data Mining

Sneak peak at the new user interface of SPMF (part 1)

I am currently working on the next version of SPMF, which will be called 2.60. There will be several improvements to the user interface of SPMF. Here is an overview of some of the improvements to give you a sneak … Continue reading

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UDML 2024 Accepted papers

Today, I want to talk to you about the upcoming UDML 2024 workshop at the PAKDD 2024 conference. This year is the 6th edition of the UDML workshop. I am happy to say that this year, we received a record … Continue reading

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SPMF 2.60 is coming soon!

Today, I want to talk a little bit about the next version of SPMF that is coming very soon. Here is some highlights of the upcoming features: 1) A Memory Viewer to help monitor the performance of algorithms in real-time: … 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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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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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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An Online Demo of the Eclat Algorithm

I have created a new interactive webpage to demonstrate how the Eclat algorithm is applied for frequent itemset mining. This webpage allows to enter a transaction database, select the minimum support and to see step by step what the Eclat … Continue reading

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An Interactive Demo of The Apriori algorithm

I have created a new website for students that provides an interactive demo of the Apriori algorithm. It allows to run Apriori in your browser and see the results step by step. The website is here: Apriori Algorithm Demo To … Continue reading

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An Online Tool to Draw FP-Trees

This blog post is to introduce a new tool made of HTML5 and JavaScript for drawing FP-trees, which you can access here: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/tools/draw_fptree.php If you are not familiar with FP-trees, the FP-tree is a data structure used in the field of … Continue reading

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How to count the frequency of words and ngrams in a text document? – Two online tools

I have added two new webpages offering tools to count the frequency of each word and ngrams (consecutive sequences of words) in a text document. These webpages can be found here: The Word Frequency Counter First, let me show you … Continue reading

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