Category Archives: Data science

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 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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A Glossary of High Utility Pattern Mining

Today, I present a glossary of key terms usedin high utility itemset mining. This glossary will be useful to researchers and practitioners working on this important subtopic of pattern mining. By the way, if you are new to this research … Continue reading

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How to find cost-effective patterns in data?

Have you ever wondered how to find patterns in data that are not only frequent but also profitable and cost-effective? For example, if you are an online retailer, you may want to know what products are often bought together by … Continue reading

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What is a Closed Itemset and Why is it Useful?

In this blog post, I will explain in simple terms what is a closed itemset and give some examples. I will also mention a few algorithms that can be used to find closed itemsets and that they can be found … Continue reading

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DSSBA 2023, 2nd Special Session on Data Science for Social and Behavioral Analytics @DSAA

I am excited to announce that the 2nd Special Session on Data Science for Social and Behavioral Analytics (DSSBA 2023) will be held at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (IEEE DSAA 2023) from October … Continue reading

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Data disasters and more…

Today, I will not talk about a serious topic. Recently, I have been experimenting a little bit with generative AI tools for pictures during my free time. Some services can generate some pretty nice pictures based on text prompts. For … Continue reading

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UDML 2023 workshop!

I’m excited to announce that I am co-organizing a new edition of the Utility-Driven Mining and Learning (UDML) workshop, which will be colocated with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2023 in Shanghai, China. The UDML workshop aims … Continue reading

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SPMF’s architecture (5) The Graphical User Interface

This is the fifth post of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will specifically talk about the graphical user interface of SPMF, its main components and how it interacts with … Continue reading

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