Category Archives: Data science

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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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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The PAKDD 2015 Conference (a brief report)

Posted on 2015-05-26 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have attended the 19th PAKDD 2015 conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from the 19th to 22nd May. In this blog post, I give some brief comments about the PAKDD 2015 conference.  PAKDD ( Pacific-Asia Conference series on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ) is a top data mining conference, held every … Continue reading →

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New version of SPMF Java open-source data mining library (0.95)

Posted on 2014-02-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I write a post to announce a new version of the SPMF Java open-source data mining library.  It is SPMF version 0.95 and it is a major revision. It offers 11 new  data mining algorithms for various data mining … Continue reading →

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