Tag Archives: data mining

Discovering the Top-K Stable Periodic Patterns in a Sequence of Events

Posted on 2023-03-24 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give a brief introduction to the TSPIN paper about how to find stable periodic patterns in a sequence of events. This algorithm was presented in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Wang Y., Yang, P., … Continue reading →

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UDML 2023 workshop!

Posted on 2023-03-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I’m excited to announce that I am co-organizing a new edition of the Utility-Driven Mining and Learning (UDML) workshop, which will be colocated with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2023 in Shanghai, China. The UDML workshop aims … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (5) The Graphical User Interface

Posted on 2023-02-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is the fifth post of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will specifically talk about the graphical user interface of SPMF, its main components and how it interacts with … Continue reading →

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SPMF 3.0: Towards even more efficiency

Posted on 2023-02-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the future of SPMF. I do this once in a while. Today, I will discuss on the performance of SPMF. Performance A main focus of SPMF is and has always been efficiency … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (4) The MemoryLogger

Posted on 2023-02-07 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will continue the series of blog posts to explain the architecture of the SPMF data mining library, and I will talk in particular about a module in SPMF called the MemoryLogger. This module is responsible for recording the … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (3) The Preference Manager

Posted on 2023-01-31 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is the third of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will explain the role of another an internal module in SPMF, called the Preference Manager. This module is used … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (2) The Main class and the Command Processor

Posted on 2023-01-19 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will continue explaining the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. In the previous post, I have introduced a key component of SPMF called the Algorithm Manager, which manages all the algorithms offered in SPMF. … Continue reading →

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SPMF’s architecture (1) The Algorithm Manager

Posted on 2023-01-16 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this new series of blog posts, I will talk about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library, and in particular, I will talk about the AlgorithmManager, which is a key component of SPMF, which manages all the algorithms … 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 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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