.. _rcv1_dataset:

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/


.. topic:: 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.
