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I'm trying to wrap my head around Association rules and frequent itemsets. So I threw my data in, instead of the samples one and sometime it works, sometimes it doesn't. 

rules = Orange.associate.AssociationRulesSparseInducer(data, support = 0.3)

print "%5s   %5s" % ("supp", "conf")
for r in rules:
    print "%5.3f   %5.3f   %s" % (r.support, r.confidence, r)

inducer = Orange.associate.AssociationRulesSparseInducer(support = 0.2, store_examples = True)
itemsets = inducer.get_itemsets(data)
print itemsets
print data.domain
print [data.domain[i].name for i in itemsets[4][0]]

More often than not, itemsets[4][0] shows an IndexError: list index out of range error. So I start playing around with support = 0.3, support = 0.5, support = 0.2 and itemsets[2][0] or itemsets[3][0].

From the docs:

support
Minimal support for the rule. Depending on the data set it should be set to sufficiently high value to avoid running out of working memory (default: 0.3).

True - I tried 0.2 and it quickly blasted my memory on a 800 rows data file.

Any idea what I should do best there or which are viable values for a shopping cart analysis?

800 rows of data (800 orders)
1 to x item(-categories) per order
15 different item-categories in the file, so my data looks like: 

ItemCat1
ItemCat2, ItemCat2, ItemCat2, ItemCat2, ItemCat7, ItemCat7, ItemCat7,     ItemCat7, ItemCat7
ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1,     ItemCat2
ItemCat4, ItemCat4
ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1, ItemCat1,     ItemCat1, ItemCat2
ItemCat5
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If Python 3 is an option, Orange 3 features FP-growth in its Orange3-Associate add-on:

pip3 install Orange3-Associate

It's well documented: http://orange3-associate.readthedocs.org/

Apriori due to its slowness and resource requirements, as you'd noticed, really isn't an algorithm to consider anymore.

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It is not available in Orange, but i would try FP-Growth. Its way faster in combination with low support values than apriori!

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  • $\begingroup$ What's not available in Orange? I actually tried around other libs with Apriori and FP-Growth and indeed you're right, FPG is way faster but the results look a bit different (maybe just because of the lib I used) but still good. I'd go that way I guess. $\endgroup$
    – Chris
    Commented Jul 7, 2015 at 15:29
  • $\begingroup$ for all I know FP-Growth is not available in Orange. The results should be the same for same input data when you use same min-support / min-confidence, but like you said, different libs are using different variants of apriori / FP-growth for better performance. $\endgroup$
    – Johannes
    Commented Jul 8, 2015 at 8:31
  • $\begingroup$ Yes, I see. I tried several libs now, FP-Growth as well and it's indeed faster. Still playing around with different libs - Orange seems not that awesome to me after I wrapped my head more around it. $\endgroup$
    – Chris
    Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 13:23
  • $\begingroup$ Orange 3 now seem to feature FP-growth in its Orange3-Associate add-on. Please see the other answer. :) $\endgroup$
    – K3---rnc
    Commented Jan 19, 2016 at 0:04

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