Category Archives: General

CSRankings: still a biased ranking

Posted on 2024-05-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will write about a ranking called CSRankings, which is used by some people to rank computer science programs from different universities. That ranking has some interesting aspects such that its code and data is open to the public, … 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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Happy New Year 2023!

Posted on 2023-01-05 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

To all readers of this blog, I would like to wish you a happy new year 2023! Recently, I have been very busy due to the end of semester and also having COVID. But now, I am fully recovered. Two … Continue reading →

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Upcoming SPMF 2.55 + UDML 2022 + BDA 2022

Posted on 2022-08-26 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have not written on the blog in the past few weeks. This is because I was quite busy and also it was the summer vacation. I had to temporarilly focus on other things. Today, I want to give you … Continue reading →

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A Tool to Generate Reviews of Academic Papers

Posted on 2022-03-22 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Writing reviews is important but sometimes repetitive and time-consuming. Hence, today I built a tool to help automatize the process of review writing. You can try it at the website below: The Review Generator ( http://philippe-fournier-viger.com/reviewgenerator/index.html ) This tool let … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Posted on 2021-12-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi everyone! This is just a short message to wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year to all the readers of this blog and users of the SPMF software! I will take a short break for a few … Continue reading →

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2,000,000 visitors on this blog!

Posted on 2021-11-03 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This blog has been created about 8 years ago (in 2013) for the purpose of talking about research, academia, and data mining. Today, I just saw that the counter of visitors to this blog has passed 2,000,000. This is of … Continue reading →

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Why Journal Special Issues are Popular?

Posted on 2021-08-02 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about journal special issues. I will talk about how special issues of journals are organized and why it can be good to submit to or organize academic journal special issues. What is a … Continue reading →

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Some funny or interesting websites related to research

Posted on 2021-03-08 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today I will talk about a few websites that are somewhat funny and are related to research. Auto-reject ( https://autoreject.org/ ) This is a website that let you automatically generate reviews to reject papers. The reviewer need to check some … Continue reading →

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How to cite equations in a research paper?

Posted on 2021-03-05 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will talk about how to cite equations in research papers, and give a few advices that may be useful to researchers. The idea of this blog post comes from a discussion that I had with some colleagues about … Continue reading →

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