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How to find cost-effective patterns in data?

Have you ever wondered how to find patterns in data that are not only frequent but also profitable and cost-effective? For example, if you are an online retailer, you may want to know what products are often bought together by … Continue reading

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Key Papers about Episode Mining

This post presents the key papers about episode mining. If you are not familiar with what is episode mining, it is a data mining task, which aims at finding patterns in a sequence of events or symbols . A short … Continue reading

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Discovering and visualizing sequential patterns in web log data using SPMF and GraphViz

Today, I will show how to use the open-source SPMF data mining software to discover sequential patterns in web log data. Then, I will show to how visualize the frequent sequential patterns found using GraphViz. Step 1 :  getting the … Continue reading

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