Category Archives: gems

git-style-binaries screencast

Just released: git-style-binaries ruby gem. Checkout the README on github. Checkout the screencast.
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Slides from Apriori.rb LA Ruby Presentation

Last night I gave a talk on my new gem Apriori.rb at the LA Ruby Meetup. Here are the slides from that presentation. Coby Randquist from Confreaks recorded the talk on his MacBookPro. I’ll see if I can get a copy and post it up here in the next couple of weeks. Apriori.rb – LA [...]
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Apriori.rb – a gem to find regularities in buying behavior (frequent itemsets)

What it is Apriori.rb is a library to efficiently find item association rules within large sets of transactions. The goal is to find regularities in buying behavior. This library provides a thin ruby wrapper around Christian Borgelt’s C implementation of this algorithm. Why use it? Finding items that are frequently purchased together can be very useful in learning [...]
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