Category Archives: General

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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If I would do a PhD again, what would I do differently?

Posted on 2021-01-08 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Recently, I gave an invited talk at University of Pisa in Italy (online). A PhD student asked me: If you would do a PhD again, what would you do differently? In this blog post, I will answer this question, which … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Posted on 2020-12-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I would like to wish all readers of this blog and users of my SPMF data mining software a merry Christmas and a happy new year! This year has been a special year due to the worldwide pandemic with … Continue reading →

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Conference Badges: the Best and the Worst

Posted on 2020-12-23 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I talk about my collection of conference badges that I have collected since I was a PhD student till today. I have attended over 50 events and have kept all of the conference badges except maybe one or two. … Continue reading →

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The 10 most cited papers in our “Data Science and Pattern Recognition” journal!

Posted on 2020-12-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

As some of you know, I am editor-in-chief of the Data Science and Pattern Recognition (DSPR) journal. This journal has started in 2017 and four volumes have been published already with 28 papers, which I consider as a success. One … Continue reading →

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Is it a good to change research area?

Posted on 2020-11-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about changing to another research area for researchers and what it implies. Moreover, I will talk about what is a good research area, and the importance of continuity for researchers. I will also … Continue reading →

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