recpack.datasets.Dataset

class recpack.datasets.Dataset(path: str = 'data', filename: Optional[str] = None, use_default_filters=True)

Represents a collaborative filtering dataset, containing users who interacted in some way with a set of items.

Every Dataset has a set of preprocessing defaults, i.e. filters that are commonly applied to the dataset before use in recommendation algorithms. These can be disabled and a different set of filters can be applied.

A Dataset is transformed into an InteractionMatrix

Parameters

• path (str, optional) – The path to the data directory. Defaults to data

• filename (str, optional) – Name of the file, if no name is provided the dataset default will be used if known. If the dataset does not have a default filename, a ValueError will be raised.

• use_default_filters (bool, optional) – Should a default set of filters be initialised? Defaults to True

Methods

add_filter(_filter[, index])	Add a filter to be applied when loading the data.
fetch_dataset([force])	Check if dataset is present, if not download
load()	Loads data into an InteractionMatrix object.

Attributes

DEFAULT_FILENAME	Default filename that will be used if it is not specified by the user.
ITEM_IX	Name of the column in the DataFrame with item identifiers
TIMESTAMP_IX	Name of the column in the DataFrame that contains time of interaction in seconds since epoch.
USER_IX	Name of the column in the DataFrame with user identifiers
file_path	The fully classified path to the file from which dataset will be loaded.

DEFAULT_FILENAME = None

Default filename that will be used if it is not specified by the user.

ITEM_IX = None

Name of the column in the DataFrame with item identifiers

TIMESTAMP_IX = None

Name of the column in the DataFrame that contains time of interaction in seconds since epoch.

USER_IX = None

Name of the column in the DataFrame with user identifiers

add_filter(_filter: recpack.preprocessing.filters.Filter, index=None)

Add a filter to be applied when loading the data.

If the index is specified, the filter is inserted at the specified index. Otherwise it is appended.

Parameters

• _filter (Filter) – Filter to be applied to the loaded DataFrame processing to interaction matrix.

• index (int) – The index to insert the filter at, None will append the filter. Defaults to None

fetch_dataset(force=False)

Check if dataset is present, if not download

Parameters

force (bool, optional) – If True, dataset will be downloaded, even if the file already exists. Defaults to False.

property file_path

The fully classified path to the file from which dataset will be loaded.

load() → recpack.matrix.interaction_matrix.InteractionMatrix

Loads data into an InteractionMatrix object.

Data is loaded into a DataFrame using the _load_dataframe function. Resulting DataFrame is parsed into an InteractionMatrix object. During parsing the filters are applied in order.

Returns

The resulting InteractionMatrix

Return type

InteractionMatrix