New Directions

Wow how long has it been since I wrote anything?

What a delayed post but better late than never as they say.

Late last year, I started focusing this blog to a topic I am really passionate about: Software Development (yes I am still confused as to how it differs from Software Engineering but the latter sounds cooler). That meant I had to trash some posts I had which weren’t really related to the topic. Also, as I am taking graduate school, I noticed I have begun posting some theoretical bits which are just really rehashes of things you can find in any algorithms book.

My Implementation of the Apriori Algorithm

This is a self imposed machine problem I wrote over a frantic afternoon yesterday for my lesson on Frequent Itemsets and the Apriori Algorithm.

I wanted to write a program that would find the top five frequent item sets among a set of baskets.

Little Notation

The difference between the little and big notations have always confused me. This post is an attempt to sort them out. I have been encountering this dilemma every time I go back to my problem set in school. I always find myself referring to my Kindle to refresh my memory.

So what are the differences?

The Apriori Algorithm

Here are just notes from my data mining class which I began to consolidate here in my blog as a way to assimilate the lessons.

The Apriori algorithm is a basic method for finding frequent itemsets. The latter is used to generate association rules with high confidence and high interest.

Getting Started With Data Mining

Here are just notes from my data mining class which I will begin to consolidate here in my blog as a way to assimilate the lessons.