webdata_wXa
OpenML dataset with id 350
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Full work available at URL: https://api.openml.org/data/v1/download/52253/webdata_wXa.sparse_arff
Upload date: 29 August 2014
Dataset Characteristics
Number of classes: 2
Number of features: 124 (numeric: 123, symbolic: 1 and in total binary: 1 )
Number of instances: 36,974
Number of instances with missing values: 0
Number of missing values: 0
Author: John Platt Source: libSVM - Date unknown Please cite: John C. Platt. Fast training of support vector machines using sequential minimal optimization. In Bernhard Schölkopf, Christopher J. C. Burges, and Alexander J. Smola, editors, Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning, Cambridge, MA, 1998. MIT Press.a
This is the famous webdata dataset w[1-8]a in its binary version, retrieved 2014-11-14 from the libSVM site. Additional to the preprocessing done there (see LibSVM site for details), this dataset was created as follows:
- load all web data datasets, train and test, e.g. w1a, w1a.t, w2a, w2a.t, w3a, ...
- join test and train for each subset, e.g. w1a and w1a.t, w2a and w2a.t
- normalize each file columnwise according to the following rules:
- If a column only contains one value (constant feature), it will set to zero and thus removed by sparsity.
- If a column contains two values (binary feature), the value occuring more often will be set to zero, the other to one.
- If a column contains more than two values (multinary/real feature), the column is divided by its std deviation.
- afterwards all these 8 files are merged into one, and randomly sorted.
- duplicate lines were finally removed.
An R script which does all of these steps can be found here:
https://github.com/openml/data_scripts/blob/master/webdata_wXa/dataDownloader.R
