Category Archives: Data science

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

Posted on 2023-03-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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…

Posted on 2023-03-23 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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!

Posted on 2023-03-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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

Posted on 2023-02-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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SPMF 3.0: Towards even more efficiency

Posted on 2023-02-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the future of SPMF. I do this once in a while. Today, I will discuss on the performance of SPMF. Performance A main focus of SPMF is and has always been efficiency … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (4) The MemoryLogger

Posted on 2023-02-07 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will continue the series of blog posts to explain the architecture of the SPMF data mining library, and I will talk in particular about a module in SPMF called the MemoryLogger. This module is responsible for recording the … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (3) The Preference Manager

Posted on 2023-01-31 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is the third of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will explain the role of another an internal module in SPMF, called the Preference Manager. This module is used … Continue reading →

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A Glossary of Pattern Mining

Posted on 2023-01-31 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Pattern mining is a popular research area in data mining, which aims at discovering interesting and useful patterns in data. It is a field of research that has been active for over 25 years and there is a lot of … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (2) The Main class and the Command Processor

Posted on 2023-01-19 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will continue explaining the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. In the previous post, I have introduced a key component of SPMF called the Algorithm Manager, which manages all the algorithms offered in SPMF. … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (1) The Algorithm Manager

Posted on 2023-01-16 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this new series of blog posts, I will talk about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library, and in particular, I will talk about the AlgorithmManager, which is a key component of SPMF, which manages all the algorithms … Continue reading →

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