Re: Proposed improvement to association rules (Apriori) algorithm

2016-10-27 Thread Frank McQuillan
I created a JIRA on this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MADLIB-1031 On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Frank McQuillan wrote: > Here is a comment from a MADlib user that I recently heard: > > “No apparent way to set an upper bound for itemset size in assoc_rules > function. This results i

Proposed improvement to association rules (Apriori) algorithm

2016-10-27 Thread Frank McQuillan
Here is a comment from a MADlib user that I recently heard: “No apparent way to set an upper bound for itemset size in assoc_rules function. This results in it running forever with larger data sets. In the R "arules" package, you can set a max itemset size so that it doesn't look for unnecessarily