Hi all, this is to announce that a new textbook in Thai has been published about pattern mining, which includes many examples using the SPMF software. The textbook named “Pattern Mining: Theory and Practice” is written by teacher Panida Songram from Mahasarakham University (Thailand) and can be used for teaching or self-learning, for students or practitionners. I have known the auhor for many years and I am very happy that she let me host a copy of the book that you can download from this link:
Pattern Mining: Theory and Pratice (PDF, 14.2 MB),
The book gives a good coverage of pattern mining. It explains algorithms but also contains many practical examples about how to use SPMF. Some key topics in the book are itemset mining, sequential pattern mining and multi-dimensional sequential pattern mining.
That is all I wanted to share for today. If you can read Thai, I highly recommend to download this book. 😉
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Philippe Fournier-Viger is a computer science professor and founder of the SPMF open-source data mining library, which offers more than 170 algorithms for analyzing data, implemented in Java.
Dear Professor Philippe Fournier-Viger:
Thank you for reading!
I am a second-year postgraduate from China.
My research is focused on association rules or sequential pattern mining. I am great honored to read your blog and find open source code with your help. At the same time, I would like to ask you a question about the sequential pattern reference books.
Thank you very much for your kind consideration and I am looking forward to your early reply.
All the best,
Zehong Zheng
Hi Zehong,
Glad to read your message, and to know you are also in China, and working on pattern mining. That is great.
For sequential pattern mining, there are not many books on this. There a book on “sequential patterns” published maybe 10 years ago by Springer, but it is not up-to-date so I personally have never read it.
For a brief introduction to the topic that is easy to read, you can check my survey on sequential pattern mining ? ( http://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/dspr-paper5.pdf )
If you are interested by high utility sequential pattern mining, you could also check this survey : http://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/2019_book_survey_high%20utility%20sequential%20pattern%20mining.pdf This one is a little bit harder to read as it is more formal but it covers that topic well.
Besides, that you can check in the SPMF software. There are implementations of many sequential pattern mining algorithms and also datasets for testing them.
There are also a few videos related to pattern mining that I recorded on that website: http://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/index.php?link=videos.php It talks about related topics like sequential rule mining, etc.
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask some question if needed.
Best regards,
Phliippe