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An Interactive Demo of The Apriori algorithm

Posted on 2023-05-16 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have created a new website for students that provides an interactive demo of the Apriori algorithm. It allows to run Apriori in your browser and see the results step by step. The website is here: Apriori Algorithm Demo To … Continue reading →

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Test your knowledge about pattern mining!

Posted on 2023-05-04 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I publish a small quiz to test your knowledge about pattern mining. There are 10 questions, which are then followed by the answers. Those questions are not very hard 😉 How many can you get right? Questions Answers Tell … Continue reading →

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How to call SPMF from Visual Basic .Net (VB)?

Posted on 2023-01-15 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will explain how to use SPMF from Visual Basic .Net. Previously, I have explained how to call SPMF from C#, from R, from C++ (on Windows) and from Python. Requirements Let me first describe the requirements. It is … Continue reading →

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How to call SPMF from a C++ Program (Windows)?

Posted on 2023-01-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I will explain how to call SPMF from a C++ program for the Windows platform. If you are interested by other programming languages, you can check my previous blog posts, where I give examples of how to call SPMF from … Continue reading →

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How to call SPMF from R?

Posted on 2023-01-10 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In previous blog posts, I have explained how to call SPMF as an external program from Python and how to call SPMF from C#. Today, I will explain how to call SPMF from an R program. Requirements Since SPMF is … Continue reading →

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How to call SPMF from Python (as an external program)?

Posted on 2023-01-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will explain how to call the SPMF data mining library from Python. Generally, there are two ways to call SPMF from Python. The first way is to use an unofficial Python wrapper for SPMF such as … Continue reading →

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How to call SPMF from C#?

Posted on 2023-01-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This blog post is the first of a series of blog post on using SPMF from different programming languages. Today, I will explain how to call the SPMF data mining library from C#. In other blog posts, I explain how … Continue reading →

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(video) Rare Itemset Mining

Posted on 2022-05-07 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have uploaded a new 38 minutes video to explain rare itemset mining. This video is like a small course, where you can learn about infrequent itemsets, minimal rare itemsets and perfectly rare itemsets and some algorithms : AprioriInverse and … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Frequent Itemsets with the Apriori algorithm

Posted on 2019-04-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the Apriori algorithm for discovering frequent itemsets in data. Frequent itemset mining is one of the most popular data mining task. VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/apriori.mp4 The Java source code of the Apriori algorithm and datasets for evaluating its performance are available in the SPMF software. If you want … Continue reading →

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Introduction to the Apriori algorithm (with Java code)

Posted on 2017-08-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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