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/*!
@file datasetmapper.txt
@author Gopi Tatiraju
@breif Introduction and tutorial for how to use DatasetMapper in mlpack.
@page datasetmapper DatasetMapper Tutorial
@section intro_datasetmapper Introduction
DatasetMapper is a class which holds information about a dataset. This can be
used when dataset contains categorical non-numeric features which should be
mapped to numeric features. A simple example can be
```
7,5,True,3
6,3,False,4
4,8,False,2
9,3,True,3
```
The above dataset will be represented as
```
7,5,0,3
6,3,1,4
4,8,1,2
9,3,0,3
```
Here Mappings are
- `True` mapped to `0`
- `False` mapped to `1`
```
**Note** DatasetMapper converts non-numeric values in the order
in which it encounters them in dataset. Therefore there is a chance that
`True` might get mapped to `0` if it encounters `True` before `False`.
This `0` and `1` are not to be confused with C++ bool notations. These
are mapping created by `mpack::DatasetMapper`.
```
DatasetMapper provides an easy API to load such data and stores all the
necessary information of the dataset.
@section toc_datasetmapper Table of Contents
A list of all sections
- \ref intro_datasetmapper
- \ref toc_datasetmapper
- \ref load
- \ref dimensions
- \ref type
- \ref numofmappings
- \ref checkmappings
- \ref unmapstring
- \ref unmapvalue
@section load Loading data
To use \b DatasetMapper we have to call a specific overload of `data::Load()`
fucntion.
@code
using namespace mlpack;
arma::mat data;
data::DatasetMapper info;
data::Load("dataset.csv", data, info);
@endcode
Dataset
```
7, 5, True, 3
6, 3, False, 4
4, 8, False, 2
9, 3, True, 3
```
@section dimensions Dimensionality
There are two ways to initialize a DatasetMapper object.
* First is to initialize the object and set each property yourself.
* Second is to pass the object to Load() in which case mlpack will populate
the object. If we use the latter option then the dimensionality will be same
as what's in the data file.
@code
std::cout << info.Dimensionality();
@endcode
@code
4
@endcode
@section type Type of each Dimension
Each dimension can be of either of the two types
- data::Datatype::numeric
- data::Datatype::categorical
\c `Type(size_t dimension)` takes an argument dimension which is the row
number for which you want to know the type
This will return an enum `data::Datatype`, which is casted to
`size_t` when we print them using `std::cout`
- 0 represents `data::Datatype::numeric`
- 1 represents `data::Datatype::categorical`
@code
std::cout << info.Type(0) << "\n";
std::cout << info.Type(1) << "\n";
std::cout << info.Type(2) << "\n";
std::cout << info.Type(3) << "\n";
@endcode
@code
0
0
1
0
@endcode
@section numofmappings Number of Mappings
If the type of a dimension is `data::Datatype::categorical`, then during
loading, each unique token in that dimension will be mapped to an integer
starting with 0.
\b NumMappings(size_t dimension) takes dimension as an argument and returns the number of
mappings in that dimension, if the dimension is a number or there are no mappings then it
will return 0.
@code
std::cout << info.NumMappings(0) << "\n";
std::cout << info.NumMappings(1) << "\n";
std::cout << info.NumMappings(2) << "\n";
std::cout << info.NumMappings(3) << "\n";
@endcode
@code
0
0
2
0
@endcode
@section checkmappings Check Mappings
There are two ways to check the mappings.
- Enter the string to get mapped integer
- Enter the mapped integer to get string
@subsection unmapstring UnmapString
\b UnmapString(int value, size_t dimension, size_t unmappingIndex = 0UL)
- value is the integer for which you want to find the mapped value
- dimension is the dimension in which you want to check the mappings
@code
std::cout << info.UnmapString(0, 2) << "\n";
std::cout << info.UnmapString(1, 2) << "\n";
@endcode
@code
T
F
@endcode
@subsection unmapvalue UnmapValue
\b UnmapValue(const std::string &input, size_t dimension)
- input is the mapped value for which you want to find mapping
- dimension is the dimension in which you want to find the mapped value
@code
std::cout << info.UnmapValue("T", 2) << "\n";
std::cout << info.UnmapValue("F", 2) << "\n";
@endcode
@code
0
1
@endcode
These are basic uses of DatasetMapper. Some advance use cases will be added soon.
*/