Tag Archives: itemset mining

Big Problems only found in Big Data?

Posted on 2014-06-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will discuss the topic of Big Data, which is a very popular topic nowadays.  The popularity of big data can be seen for example in universities. Many universities are currently searching for professors who do research on “big data”. Moreover, … Continue reading →

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An introduction to frequent pattern mining

Posted on 2013-10-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give a brief overview of an important subfield of data mining that is  called pattern mining.  Pattern mining consists of using/developing data mining algorithms to discover interesting,  unexpected and useful patterns in databases. Pattern … Continue reading →

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How to auto-adjust the minimum support threshold according to the data size

Posted on 2013-05-11 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will do a quick post on how to automatically adjust the minimum support threshold of frequent pattern mining algorithms such as Apriori, FPGrowth and PrefixSpan according to the size of the data. The problem is simple.  Let’s consider … Continue reading →

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