lenskit-input-data
Name
Specifying input data for LensKit commands.
Description
Several subcommands of lenskit(1) allow for input data to be specified. They all take the same options to control their input data, documented here.
Primary Input File
LensKit commands can read data in several different ways. To give the recommendation or model-building process some data to work with, one of the following mutually-exclusive options must be present:
- –ratings-file FILE
- Read ratings from the delimited text file FILE.
- –csv-file FILE
- Read ratings from the CSV file FILE. This is identical to passing
--ratings-file=FILEwith--delimiter=,. - –tsv-file FILE
- Read ratings from the tab-separated file FILE. This is identical
to passing
--ratings-file=FILEwith--delimiter=^I, but doesn’t require you to know how to encode tab characters in your shell. - –events-file FILE
- Read events from the text file FILE. One event will be read per line, usually in a delimited column format such as a CSV or TSV file.
- –pack-file FILE
- Read ratings from the packed rating file FILE. Packed files can be
created with the
pack-ratingscommand.
Supplementary Input Files
In addition to the rating or event data, you can also provide
- –item-names FILE
- Load an item ID to name mapping from the CSV file FILE. This will
be used to provide an
ItemNameDAOandItemDAO. It expects a CSV file where the first column is the item ID and the second column is the name. Standard CSV quoting is supported.
Input Options
The options in this section provide additional control over the input.
Delimited Ratings and Event Files
These options control how events (--events-file) or ratings
(--ratings-file) are parsed.
- -d DELIM, –delimiter DELIM
- Use DELIM as the delimiter for delimited text files. Only
effective in conjunction with
--ratings-fileor--events-file; does not affect the parsing of--item-names. - -H N, –header-lines N
- Skip N header lines at the top of the event or ratings file.
- -t TYPE, –event-type TYPE
- When used with
--events-file, specifies the type of events that are being read from the file.
See Also
Project Information
This command is a part of LensKit, an open source recommender systems toolkit developed by GroupLens Research. Copyright 2010-2014 Regents of the University of Minnesota and contributors.
Work on LensKit has been funded by the National Science Foundation under grants IIS 05-34939, 08-08692, 08-12148, and 10-17697.
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