The Data Mining Forum (v2)

For me the main reasons to do a PhD are as follows: 1) I want to experience doing research and being exposed to other researchers in the same field 2) I have the curiosity to know more about a particular area and the industry 3) I am sure I will get a job, however, getting a PhD will help me for tha...

What do you guy think about ChatGPT and other chatbots? I think that the progress in AI are amazing. Maybe we will start using more bots. Your thoughts?

Pattern mining is an interesting topic in data science. It consists of the discovery of frequent sets, of which the support (number of occurrences of the pattern) is above a given threshold. In many cases, support is inversely correlated to the size of the patterns, so that the most interesting patt...

The main limitations of K-Means are that it needs the number of clusters as an input, it is a biased algorithm, and also it fails to detect outliers. Outliers can be classified as any data that are not near the cluster or do not belong to the cluster. These outliers have a tendency to break down the...

If you want to learn Spark, you should start by going through the Spark tutorials. It explains everything from the basics of Spark to some advanced topics.

If you want to analyze COVID-19 data, you could use the data in the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization. You could analyze the raw numbers by themselves or in relation to other key economic and population statistics. For example, to see how the total ...

What is the difference between episode mining and sequential pattern mining? I read some paper that said episode mining is an extension of sequential pattern mining. But after looking at their papers, I am still not sure if they are the same. I would like to know what is the use of sequential patter...

The content looks great. I will share it with my friends who are interested in that topic area.

That is some good journals but not very easy

I am interested by the IEEE TKDE but I think it requires massive work.

I think for this summer, it will just be work. If I can get free time, maybe go to travel a week or two.