Category Archives: Pattern Mining

Introduction to the Apriori algorithm (with Java code)

This blog post provides an introduction to the Apriori algorithm, a classic data mining algorithm for the problem of frequent itemset mining. Although Apriori was introduced in 1993, more than 20 years ago, Apriori remains one of the most important data mining algorithms, not because it is the fastest, but because it has … Continue reading

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An Introduction to Sequential Pattern Mining

In this blog post, I will give an introduction to sequential pattern mining, an important data mining task with a wide range of applications from text analysis to market basket analysis.  This blog post is aimed to be a short introduction. If you want to read a more … Continue reading

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Analyzing the source code of the SPMF data mining software

Hi everyone, In this blog post, I will discuss how I have applied an open-source tool that is named Code Analyzer ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/codeanalyze-gpl/ )  to analyze the source code of my open-source data mining software named SPMF. I have applied … Continue reading

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A Map of Data Mining Algorithms (offered in SPMF v092c)

Hi, I have made a map to visualize the relationship between the 52 different data mining algorithms offered in the SPMF data mining software.  You can view it in PNG format by clicking on the picture below: Or you can … Continue reading

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