# Frequent Pattern Mining

Mining frequent items, itemsets, subsequences, or other substructures is usually among the first steps to analyze a large-scale dataset, which has been an active research topic in data mining for years. We refer users to Wikipedia’s association rule learning for more information.

[FP-Growth](https://george-jen.gitbook.io/data-science-and-apache-spark/fp-growth)

[PrefixSpan](https://george-jen.gitbook.io/data-science-and-apache-spark/prefixspan)