icaruso21 / compressing-item-sets

A data mining project

compressing-item-sets

A suite of algorithms for finding interesting item sets in large databases by considering the item sets that compress the data best. Python implementations of the algorithms described in "Item Sets That Compress".

Usage

python main.py version filepath

Environment Setup

To create a new environment:

• python3 -m venv env
• source env/bin/activate

To install packages in an active environment:

• pip install <package name>

To save an environment:

• pip freeze > requirements.txt

To restore an environment:

• pip install -r ./requirements.txt

Datasets used for testing

All datasets were taken from http://fimi.uantwerpen.be/data/. They can be found under the data folder of this repository (with the exception of kosarak, which is too large to add to the repository)

• chess
• connect
• kosarak