Category: Algorithms
Making profits during Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak brought the world economy and the stock market to their knees. Many people and most companies are fighting to survive these hard times. On the other hand, some are using this situation to make huge profits. In this experiment I demonstrated how to make over 80% gains, while the stock market is ...
Graph Data Structure – Python Implementation
Today, as data volumes are growing almost exponentially, search in artificial intelligence and computer science is regaining it’s popularity. There is basically no field without application of at least some of the search algorithms. Many of these search algorithms in computer science and artificial intelligence rely heavily on graphs and trees as underlying data structure ...
Market Basket Analysis – Mining Frequent Pairs in Python
Have you ever asked yourself how the store managers decide on product shelf placement in retail stores? There must be some strategy behind it, right? It can’t be just a random choice. Almost on daily basis, you receive product purchase recommendations from variety of sources where you have left your “digital fingerprint”. In many cases these ...
Bloom Filter Example in Python
The title might also have been, “how to reduce 10 Gb of data to 1 single Megabyte”. BigData is only going to get bigger in the future. Our challenge, among others, is to find efficient methods and algorithms to (quickly) deal with wast amounts of data, extract meaningful information and to find ways how to ...
From Recursion to Tail Recursion in Scala
#scala #recursion #optimization
Google’s PageRank Algorithm in Python
Have you ever asked yourself how google ranks the pages when you search something on google.com? If yes, have a look at PageRank algorithm definition. I’ll not go into much details here, but to give you an idea, the World Wide Web can be seen as a large graph, consisting of pages as nodes and ...
A Star (A*) Algorithm with Caching – Java Implementation
Route calculation is computationally an expensive operation. There are several ways how to reduce computational load on the backend. I’ll show you how I optimized my computational resources. There are times where a bunch of people is heading to the same event using the same or at least similar paths. Following this logic, it is ...
A Star (A*) Algorithm Implementation in Java
A* algorithm can be seen as an heuristic extension of Dijkstra’s. Whereas in the Dijkstra’s priority-queue ordering is based only on the distance from the start node to the current, A* algorithm additionally calculates the distance from the current node to the goal-node. Thus the ordering in the priority queue is different and the algorithm ...
Dijkstra’s Algorithm implementation in Java
The Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm basically checks only if there is a path from node A to node B. It’ doesn’t necessarily find the shortest path between two graph nodes. Here comes Dijkstra into the game. Dijkstra’s algorithm finds the shortest possible route between two graph nodes. The main difference between Dijkstra and BFS ...
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