Tag Archives: data mining

Discovering hidden patterns in texts using SPMF

Posted on 2016-09-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This tutorial will explain how to analyze text documents to discover complex and hidden relationships between words.  We will illustrate this with a Sherlock Holmes novel. Moreover we will explain how hidden patterns in text can be used to recognize the author of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Big data, Data Mining, Data science, open-source, spmf | Tagged , , , | 9 Comments

Brief report about the IEA AIE 2016 conference

Posted on 2016-08-04 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I have attended the IEA AIE 2016 conference, held at Morioka, Japan from the 2nd to the 4th August 2016. In this blog post, I will briefly discuss the conference. About the conference IEA AIE 2016 (29th International Conference … Continue reading →

Posted in artificial intelligence, Conference, Data Mining, Data science, Research | Tagged , , | 7 Comments

News about SPMF

Posted on 2016-02-03 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Some quick news about the SPMF project. First, this month I have made a few updates to SPMF.  Two new algorithms have been added: USpan (for high-utility sequential pattern mining) and FCHM (for correlated high utility itemset mining). Moreover, I have fixed … Continue reading →

Posted in spmf | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

SPMF data mining library 0.98: new pattern visualization window

Posted on 2016-01-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This blog post is to let you know that I have just published a new version of the SPMF open-source Java data mining library (0.98) that offers a new window for visualizing the patterns found by data mining algorithms. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Mining, General, open-source, Research, spmf | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Interview with the SPMF library founder

Posted on 2015-10-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will just write a short blog post to let you know that I was recently interviewed on Rahaman’s blog.  The interview talks about various topics such as (1) why creating the SPMF data mining library, (2) why choosing to work in … Continue reading →

Posted in Big data, Data Mining, Data science, Research, spmf | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

200,000 visitors on the SPMF website!

Posted on 2015-09-29 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will just write a short blog post to mention that the SPMF open-source data mining library has recently passed the milestone of 200,000 visitors.  This is possible thanks to the support of all users of SPMF, and the contributors … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Mining, Data science, open-source, Research, spmf | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

The SPMF data mining library: a brief history and what’s next?

Posted on 2015-08-19 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the well-known open-source library of data mining algorithms implemented in Java, which I am the founder of. I will give a brief overview of its history, discuss some lessons learned from the development of … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Mining, open-source, Programming, Research, spmf | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

An Introduction to Sequential Rule Mining

Posted on 2015-08-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will discuss an interesting topic in data mining, which is the topic of sequential rule mining. It consists of discovering rules in sequences. This data mining task has many applications for example for analyzing the behavior of … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Mining, Research | Tagged , , , | 33 Comments

How to test if a data mining mining algorithm implementation is correct?

Posted on 2015-07-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will discuss how to check if a data mining algorithm implementation is correct and complete. This is a very important topic for researchers who are implementing data mining algorithms since an incorrect implementation may generate unexpected results. … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Mining, Programming, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

The PAKDD 2015 Conference (a brief report)

Posted on 2015-05-26 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have attended the 19th PAKDD 2015 conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from the 19th to 22nd May. In this blog post, I give some brief comments about the PAKDD 2015 conference.  PAKDD ( Pacific-Asia Conference series on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ) is a top data mining conference, held every … Continue reading →

Posted in Conference, Data Mining, Data science | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments