Category Archives: Data Mining

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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Brief report about the ACM SAC 2016 conference

Posted on 2016-04-10 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Last week, I have attended the ACM SAC 2016 conference (31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing). It was held in Pisa, Italy from the 4th to the 8th April 2016. In this blog post, I will briefly discuss this conference. About … Continue reading →

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SPMF data mining library 0.98: new pattern visualization window

Posted on 2016-01-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This blog post is to let you know that I have just published a new version of the SPMF open-source Java data mining library (0.98) that offers a new window for visualizing the patterns found by data mining algorithms. This … Continue reading →

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The ADMA 2015 conference has been cancelled

Posted on 2015-11-30 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Recently I have submitted a few papers to the ADMA 2015 conference (11th conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, which was supposed to be held at Fudan university, China in January 2016 (despite being named 2015). The website of ADMA 2015 conference  ( … Continue reading →

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Interview with the SPMF library founder

Posted on 2015-10-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will just write a short blog post to let you know that I was recently interviewed on Rahaman’s blog.  The interview talks about various topics such as (1) why creating the SPMF data mining library, (2) why choosing to work in … Continue reading →

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200,000 visitors on the SPMF website!

Posted on 2015-09-29 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will just write a short blog post to mention that the SPMF open-source data mining library has recently passed the milestone of 200,000 visitors.  This is possible thanks to the support of all users of SPMF, and the contributors … Continue reading →

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