From the course: Data Science Foundations: Data Mining in R

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Challenge: Apriori

Challenge: Apriori

(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Now we've covered several methods of association rules of mining, I want to invite you to try some of these methods on your own, specifically, I want to give you a challenge here with Apriori. And to do this, we're going to use a dataset that comes from the arules package. So let's load these packages, and I just set the random seed as a matter of course, and we're going to use the EPUB data set from arules package. Now let's get a little bit of information about that one. This is a download history of documents from the Electronic Publication Platform at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration from 2003 to 2008. And it's over 15,000 transactions over 900 items. And the ideas are cryptic, they're just these little shortcuts, so we don't actually know exactly what's being downloaded, except we can use those IDs as a way of studying the interrelationships…

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