US Patent 10572501 Steering graph mining algorithms applied to complex networks

A user guided data mining system includes: a database storing a network graph comprising a plurality nodes and edges, node attributes for the nodes, and edge attributes for the edges; and a data mining module configured to: request feedback from a user indicating at least one of the node attributes, visualize the network graph considering the indicated attributes, request feedback from the user indicating a part of the visualized network graph and a class of graph mining algorithm, and rank a plurality of different graph mining algorithms of the indicated class based on the indicated part.