Category Archives: Data Mining

Categorical data clustering: 25 years beyond K-modes (a survey)

If you are interested by categorical data clustering, I am glad to announce that a new and up-to-date survey paper named “Categorical data clustering: 25 years beyond K-modes” will appear on this topic in the Expert Systems with Applications journal. … Continue reading

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Vertical and horizontal databases in itemset mining

Itemset mining is a data mining task for discovering patterns that appear frequently in transaction databases. In this context, a pattern, also called a frequent itemset, is a set of values that frequently occur together in transactions (records) of a … Continue reading

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CFP: PM4B 2005: A new workshop on pattern mining and machine learning in bioinformatics @ PAKDD 2025

Today, I would like to announce that we are creating a new workshop for PAKDD 2025 called the 1st Workshop on Pattern mining and Machine learning for Bioinformatics (PM4B 2025). The goal of the workshop is to establish a collaborative platform … Continue reading

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SPMF 2.62 is released!

This is a short blog post to announce that SPMF 2.62 is released, and can be downloaded from the SPMF website‘s download page. The previous version of SPMF (2.60) introduced a lot of new features, also with some code refactoring, … Continue reading

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The story of the most influential paper award of PAKDD 2024

Recently, I have attended the PAKDD 2024 conference, where I was happy to receive the most influential paper award with my co-authors. This award is a test of time type of award that is given to the paper from PAKDD … Continue reading

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A brief report about PAKDD 2024

This week, I have attended PAKDD 2024 in the city of Taipei. It was a great conference with good keynote speakers, activities and opportunities for learning and networking. In this blog post, I will give a brief overview of the … Continue reading

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SPMF 2.60 is released!

This is a short message today to announce that the new version of SPMF 2.60 is finally released! This is a major version as it contains many new things. The full lists of changes can be found on the download … Continue reading

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Some interesting statistics about SPMF

While I am preparing the next version of Java SPMF data mining software (2.60), here are some interesting statistics about the project, that I have generated directly from the metadata provided by SPMF. Here it is: The number of algorithms … Continue reading

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Sneak peak at the new user interface of SPMF (part 3)

Today, I would like to talk to you about another upcoming feature of the next version of SPMF (2.60), which will be released soon. It will be a Workflow Editor that will allow the user to select multiple algorithms from … Continue reading

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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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