Algorithms

Market Basket Analysis – Mining Frequent Pairs in Python

Jan 19, 2017

Algorithms, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, Mining of Massive Datasets, Python, Source code

Algorithms, Data Mining, Example, Implementation, Made Simple, Market Basket, Mining Frequent Pairs, Mining of Massive Datasets, MMDS, Python, Source

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…
A Star (A*) Algorithm with Caching – Java Implementation

Dec 19, 2016

Algorithms, Backend, Data Structures, Java, Source code

A*, Algorithms, Caching, Implementation, Java, Redis, Shortest Path, Source

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…