With the development of social media (eg Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, Sina Weibo, etc.), a
large number of people are now using them and post microblogs, messages and multi …

This chapter surveys visualization techniques for frequent itemsets, association rules, and
sequential patterns. The human is crucial in the process of identifying interesting patterns …

Market participants and businesses have made tremendous efforts to make the best
decisions in a timely manner under varying economic and business circumstances. As such …

Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) is one of the most versatile tools used for exploratory data
mining. It allows a first glimpse of possible structure in the data, which can inform the choice …

Media data has been the subject of large scale analysis with applications of text mining
being used to provide overviews of media themes and information flows. Such information …

A difficult area of study is financial time series forecasting. The development of time series
and FNN are introduced in this paper, which also conducts a thorough study of local …

Visual analytics is an emerging research field that combines the strength of electronic data
processing and human intuition-based social background knowledge. This study …

Consumer demand estimation is a key step in real-time drinking water system (DWS)
modeling used for demand forecasting, optimal operations, and water quality management …

Word-clouds are a useful tool for providing overviews over texts, visualising relevant words.
Multiple word-clouds can also be used to visualise changes over time in a text. This requires …

Patterns of words used in different text collections can characterize interesting properties of
a corpus. However, these patterns are challenging to explore as they often involve complex …