Frequent patterns and MapReduce

This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. The first data mining algorithm that was implemented for Antecons was Frequent Pattern growth (FP-growth) which is an algorithm that finds frequent patterns in… Continue reading Frequent patterns and MapReduce

Antecons developer diary part 3

This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. On Friday, October 5, 2012, Antecons was started over from scratch and another journey begun. How long this journey will be and what will… Continue reading Antecons developer diary part 3

Antecons developer diary part 1

This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. It has been a year since the first announcement of Antecons. What has happened since then? Absolutely nothing. The reason for this seems to… Continue reading Antecons developer diary part 1

Antecons

“Release fast and iterate“. In some parts of the computing world this is the mantra and I think it’s time for an early announcement: Metacircle has now released an actual product (kind of). It is called Antecons, short for antecedent – consequent. Antecons is a small and simple component that suggests items based on previous… Continue reading Antecons