sklearn/datasets/descr/rcv1.rst
.. _rcv1_dataset:
Reuters Corpus Volume I (RCV1) is an archive of over 800,000 manually categorized newswire stories made available by Reuters, Ltd. for research purposes. The dataset is extensively described in [1]_.
Data Set Characteristics:
============== ===================== Classes 103 Samples total 804414 Dimensionality 47236 Features real, between 0 and 1 ============== =====================
:func:sklearn.datasets.fetch_rcv1 will load the following
version: RCV1-v2, vectors, full sets, topics multilabels::
>>> from sklearn.datasets import fetch_rcv1
>>> rcv1 = fetch_rcv1()
It returns a dictionary-like object, with the following attributes:
data:
The feature matrix is a scipy CSR sparse matrix, with 804414 samples and
47236 features. Non-zero values contains cosine-normalized, log TF-IDF vectors.
A nearly chronological split is proposed in [1]_: The first 23149 samples are
the training set. The last 781265 samples are the testing set. This follows
the official LYRL2004 chronological split. The array has 0.16% of non zero
values::
>>> rcv1.data.shape
(804414, 47236)
target:
The target values are stored in a scipy CSR sparse matrix, with 804414 samples
and 103 categories. Each sample has a value of 1 in its categories, and 0 in
others. The array has 3.15% of non zero values::
>>> rcv1.target.shape
(804414, 103)
sample_id:
Each sample can be identified by its ID, ranging (with gaps) from 2286
to 810596::
>>> rcv1.sample_id[:3]
array([2286, 2287, 2288], dtype=uint32)
target_names:
The target values are the topics of each sample. Each sample belongs to at
least one topic, and to up to 17 topics. There are 103 topics, each
represented by a string. Their corpus frequencies span five orders of
magnitude, from 5 occurrences for 'GMIL', to 381327 for 'CCAT'::
>>> rcv1.target_names[:3].tolist() # doctest: +SKIP
['E11', 'ECAT', 'M11']
The dataset will be downloaded from the rcv1 homepage_ if necessary.
The compressed size is about 656 MB.
.. _rcv1 homepage: http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume5/lewis04a/
.. rubric:: References
.. [1] Lewis, D. D., Yang, Y., Rose, T. G., & Li, F. (2004). RCV1: A new benchmark collection for text categorization research. The Journal of Machine Learning Research, 5, 361-397.