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per"><h5>On this page</h5><aside id="table-of-contents"><ul> <li> <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a> </li> <li> <a href="#tapster-demo-application">Tapster Demo Application</a> </li> <li> <a href="#apache-predictionio-setup">Apache PredictionIO Setup</a> </li> <li> <a href="#import-data">Import Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#connect-demo-app-with-apache-predictionio">Connect Demo app with Apache PredictionIO</a> </li> <li> <a href="#links">Links</a> </li> <li> <a href="#conclusion">Conclusion</a> </li> </ul> </aside><hr/><a id="edit-page-link" href="https://github.com/apache/predictionio/tree/livedoc/docs/manual/source/demo/tapster.html.md"><img src="/images/icons/edit-pencil-d6c1bb3d.png"/>Edit this page</a></div><div class="content-header hidden-sm hidden-xs"><div id="breadcrumbs" class="hidden-sm hidden xs"><ul><li><a href="#">Demo Tutorials</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><span class="last">Comics Recommendation Demo</span></li></ul></div><div id="page-title"><h
1>Comics Recommendation Demo</h1></div></div><div class="content"> <h2 id='introduction' class='header-anchors'>Introduction</h2><p>In this demo, we will show you how to build a Tinder-style web application (named "Tapster") recommending comics to users based on their likes/dislikes of episodes interactively.</p><p>The demo will use <a href="https://predictionio.apache.org/templates/similarproduct/quickstart/">Similar Product Template</a>. Similar Product Template is a great choice if you want to make recommendations based on immediate user activities or for new users with limited history. It uses MLLib Alternating Least Squares (ALS) recommendation algorithm, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system#Collaborative_filtering">Collaborative filtering</a> (CF) algorithm commonly used for recommender systems. These techniques aim to fill in the missing entries of a user-item association matrix. Users and products are described by a small set of latent factors
that can be used to predict missing entries. A layman's interpretation of Collaborative Filtering is "People who like this comic, also like these comics."</p><p>All the code and data is on GitHub at: <a href="https://github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster">github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster</a>.</p><h3 id='data' class='header-anchors'>Data</h3><p>The source of the data is from <a href="http://tapastic.com/">Tapastic</a>. You can find the data files <a href="https://github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster/tree/master/data">here</a>.</p><p>The data structure looks like this:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster/blob/master/data/episode_list.csv">Episode List</a> <code>data/episode_list.csv</code></p><p><strong>Fields:</strong> episodeId | episodeTitle | episodeCategories | episodeUrl | episodeImageUrls</p><p>1,000 rows. Each row represents one episode.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster/blob/master/data/user_list.csv">User Li
ke Event List</a> <code>data/user_list.csv</code></p><p><strong>Fields:</strong> userId | episodeId | likedTimestamp</p><p>192,587 rows. Each row represents one user like for the given episode.</p><p>The tutorial has four major steps:</p> <ul> <li>Demo application setup</li> <li>PredictionIO installation and setup</li> <li>Import data into database and PredictionIO</li> <li>Integrate demo application with PredictionIO</li> </ul> <h2 id='tapster-demo-application' class='header-anchors'>Tapster Demo Application</h2><p>The demo application is built using Rails.</p><p>You can clone the existing application with:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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"><h5>On this page</h5><aside id="table-of-contents"><ul> <li> <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a> </li> <li> <a href="#tapster-demo-application">Tapster Demo Application</a> </li> <li> <a href="#apache-predictionio-setup">Apache PredictionIO Setup</a> </li> <li> <a href="#import-data">Import Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#connect-demo-app-with-apache-predictionio">Connect Demo app with Apache PredictionIO</a> </li> <li> <a href="#links">Links</a> </li> <li> <a href="#conclusion">Conclusion</a> </li> </ul> </aside><hr/><a id="edit-page-link" href="https://github.com/apache/predictionio/tree/livedoc/docs/manual/source/demo/tapster.html.md"><img src="/images/icons/edit-pencil-d6c1bb3d.png"/>Edit this page</a></div><div class="content-header hidden-sm hidden-xs"><div id="breadcrumbs" class="hidden-sm hidden xs"><ul><li><a href="#">Demo Tutorials</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><span class="last">Comics Recommendation Demo</span></li></ul></div><div id="page-title"><h1>C
omics Recommendation Demo</h1></div></div><div class="content"> <h2 id='introduction' class='header-anchors'>Introduction</h2><p>In this demo, we will show you how to build a Tinder-style web application (named "Tapster") recommending comics to users based on their likes/dislikes of episodes interactively.</p><p>The demo will use <a href="https://predictionio.apache.org/templates/similarproduct/quickstart/">Similar Product Template</a>. Similar Product Template is a great choice if you want to make recommendations based on immediate user activities or for new users with limited history. It uses MLLib Alternating Least Squares (ALS) recommendation algorithm, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system#Collaborative_filtering">Collaborative filtering</a> (CF) algorithm commonly used for recommender systems. These techniques aim to fill in the missing entries of a user-item association matrix. Users and products are described by a small set of latent factors th
at can be used to predict missing entries. A layman's interpretation of Collaborative Filtering is "People who like this comic, also like these comics."</p><p>All the code and data is on GitHub at: <a href="https://github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster">github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster</a>.</p><h3 id='data' class='header-anchors'>Data</h3><p>The source of the data is from <a href="http://tapastic.com/">Tapastic</a>. You can find the data files <a href="https://github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster/tree/master/data">here</a>.</p><p>The data structure looks like this:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster/blob/master/data/episode_list.csv">Episode List</a> <code>data/episode_list.csv</code></p><p><strong>Fields:</strong> episodeId | episodeTitle | episodeCategories | episodeUrl | episodeImageUrls</p><p>1,000 rows. Each row represents one episode.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/PredictionIO/Demo-Tapster/blob/master/data/user_list.csv">User Like
Event List</a> <code>data/user_list.csv</code></p><p><strong>Fields:</strong> userId | episodeId | likedTimestamp</p><p>192,587 rows. Each row represents one user like for the given episode.</p><p>The tutorial has four major steps:</p> <ul> <li>Demo application setup</li> <li>PredictionIO installation and setup</li> <li>Import data into database and PredictionIO</li> <li>Integrate demo application with PredictionIO</li> </ul> <h2 id='tapster-demo-application' class='header-anchors'>Tapster Demo Application</h2><p>The demo application is built using Rails.</p><p>You can clone the existing application with:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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Tutorial</h1></div></div><div id="table-of-content-wrapper"><h5>On this page</h5><aside id="table-of-contents"><ul> <li> <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a> </li> <li> <a href="#prerequisites">Prerequisites</a> </li> <li> <a href="#engine-overview">Engine Overview</a> </li> <li> <a href="#quick-start">Quick Start</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#detailed-explanation-of-dase">Detailed Explanation of DASE</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#importing-data">Importing Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#data-source-reading-event-data">Data Source: Reading Event Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#preparator-data-processing-with-dase">Preparator : Data Processing With DASE</a> </li> <li> <a href="#algorithm-component">Algorithm Component</a> </li> <li> <a href="#serving-delivering-the-final-prediction">Serving: Delivering the Final Prediction</a> </li> <li> <a href="#evaluation-model-assessment-and-selection">Evaluation: Model Assessment and Selection</a> </li> <li> <a href="#engine-deployment">Engine
Deployment</a> </li> </ul> </aside><hr/><a id="edit-page-link" href="https://github.com/apache/predictionio/tree/livedoc/docs/manual/source/demo/textclassification.html.md.erb"><img src="/images/icons/edit-pencil-d6c1bb3d.png"/>Edit this page</a></div><div class="content-header hidden-sm hidden-xs"><div id="breadcrumbs" class="hidden-sm hidden xs"><ul><li><a href="#">Demo Tutorials</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><span class="last">Text Classification Engine Tutorial</span></li></ul></div><div id="page-title"><h1>Text Classification Engine Tutorial</h1></div></div><div class="content"> <p>(Updated for Text Classification Template version 3.1)</p><h2 id='introduction' class='header-anchors'>Introduction</h2><p>In the real world, there are many applications that collect text as data. For example, spam detectors take email and header content to automatically determine what is or is not spam; applications can gague the general sentiment in a geographical area by analyzing T
witter data; and news articles can be automatically categorized based solely on the text content.There are a wide array of machine learning models you can use to create, or train, a predictive model to assign an incoming article, or query, to an existing category. Before you can use these techniques you must first transform the text data (in this case the set of news articles) into numeric vectors, or feature vectors, that can be used to train your model.</p><p>The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate how you can go about doing this using PredictionIO's platform. The advantages of using this platform include: a dynamic engine that responds to queries in real-time; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns">separation of concerns</a>, which offers code re-use and maintainability, and distributed computing capabilities for scalability and efficiency. Moreover, it is easy to incorporate non-trivial data modeling tasks into the DASE architecture allowing Data
Scientists to focus on tasks related to modeling. This tutorial will exemplify some of these ideas by guiding you through PredictionIO's <a href="/gallery/template-gallery/#natural-language-processing">text classification template</a>.</p><h2 id='prerequisites' class='header-anchors'>Prerequisites</h2><p>Before getting started, please make sure that you have the latest version of Apache PredictionIO <a href="http://predictionio.apache.org/install/">installed</a>. We emphasize here that this is an engine template written in <strong>Scala</strong> and can be more generally thought of as an SBT project containing all the necessary components.</p><p>You should also download the engine template named Text Classification Engine that accompanies this tutorial by cloning the template repository:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre>git clone https
://github.com/apache/predictionio-template-text-classifier.git < Your new engine directory >
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torial</h1></div></div><div id="table-of-content-wrapper"><h5>On this page</h5><aside id="table-of-contents"><ul> <li> <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a> </li> <li> <a href="#prerequisites">Prerequisites</a> </li> <li> <a href="#engine-overview">Engine Overview</a> </li> <li> <a href="#quick-start">Quick Start</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#detailed-explanation-of-dase">Detailed Explanation of DASE</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#importing-data">Importing Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#data-source-reading-event-data">Data Source: Reading Event Data</a> </li> <li> <a href="#preparator-data-processing-with-dase">Preparator : Data Processing With DASE</a> </li> <li> <a href="#algorithm-component">Algorithm Component</a> </li> <li> <a href="#serving-delivering-the-final-prediction">Serving: Delivering the Final Prediction</a> </li> <li> <a href="#evaluation-model-assessment-and-selection">Evaluation: Model Assessment and Selection</a> </li> <li> <a href="#engine-deployment">Engine De
ployment</a> </li> </ul> </aside><hr/><a id="edit-page-link" href="https://github.com/apache/predictionio/tree/livedoc/docs/manual/source/demo/textclassification.html.md.erb"><img src="/images/icons/edit-pencil-d6c1bb3d.png"/>Edit this page</a></div><div class="content-header hidden-sm hidden-xs"><div id="breadcrumbs" class="hidden-sm hidden xs"><ul><li><a href="#">Demo Tutorials</a><span class="spacer">></span></li><li><span class="last">Text Classification Engine Tutorial</span></li></ul></div><div id="page-title"><h1>Text Classification Engine Tutorial</h1></div></div><div class="content"> <p>(Updated for Text Classification Template version 3.1)</p><h2 id='introduction' class='header-anchors'>Introduction</h2><p>In the real world, there are many applications that collect text as data. For example, spam detectors take email and header content to automatically determine what is or is not spam; applications can gague the general sentiment in a geographical area by analyzing Twit
ter data; and news articles can be automatically categorized based solely on the text content.There are a wide array of machine learning models you can use to create, or train, a predictive model to assign an incoming article, or query, to an existing category. Before you can use these techniques you must first transform the text data (in this case the set of news articles) into numeric vectors, or feature vectors, that can be used to train your model.</p><p>The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate how you can go about doing this using PredictionIO's platform. The advantages of using this platform include: a dynamic engine that responds to queries in real-time; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns">separation of concerns</a>, which offers code re-use and maintainability, and distributed computing capabilities for scalability and efficiency. Moreover, it is easy to incorporate non-trivial data modeling tasks into the DASE architecture allowing Data Sc
ientists to focus on tasks related to modeling. This tutorial will exemplify some of these ideas by guiding you through PredictionIO's <a href="/gallery/template-gallery/#natural-language-processing">text classification template</a>.</p><h2 id='prerequisites' class='header-anchors'>Prerequisites</h2><p>Before getting started, please make sure that you have the latest version of Apache PredictionIO <a href="http://predictionio.apache.org/install/">installed</a>. We emphasize here that this is an engine template written in <strong>Scala</strong> and can be more generally thought of as an SBT project containing all the necessary components.</p><p>You should also download the engine template named Text Classification Engine that accompanies this tutorial by cloning the template repository:</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre>git clone https://
github.com/apache/predictionio-template-text-classifier.git < Your new engine directory >
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <h2 id='engine-overview' class='header-anchors'>Engine Overview</h2><p>The engine follows the DASE architecture which we briefly review here. As a user, you are tasked with collecting data for your web or application, and importing it into PredictionIO's Event Server. Once the data is in the server, it can be read and processed by the engine via the Data Source and Preparation components, respectively. The Algorithm component uses the processed, or prepared, data to train a set of predictive models. Once you have trained these models, you are ready to deploy your engine and respond to real-time queries via the Serving component which combines the results from different fitted models. The Evaluation component is used to compute an appropriate metric to test the performance of a fitted model, as well as aid in the tuning of model hyper parameters.</p><p>This engine template is meant to handle text classification which means you will be worki
ng with text data. This means that a query, or newly observed documents, will be of the form:</p><p><code>{text : String}</code>.</p><p>In the running example, a query would be an incoming news article. Once the engine is deployed it can process the query, and then return a Predicted Result of the form</p><p><code>{category : String, confidence : Double}</code>.</p><p>Here category is the model's class assignment for this new text document (i.e. the best guess for this article's categorization), and confidence, a value between 0 and 1 representing your confidence in the category prediction (0 meaning you have no confidence in the prediction). The Actual Result is of the form</p><p><code>{category : String}</code>.</p><p>This is used in the evaluation stage when estimating the performance of your predictive model (how well does the model predict categories). Please refer to the <a href="https://predictionio.apache.org/customize/">following tutorial</a> for a more detailed exp
lanation of how your engine will interact with your web application, as well as an in depth-overview of DASE.</p><h2 id='quick-start' class='header-anchors'>Quick Start</h2><p>This is a quick start guide in case you want to start using the engine right away. Sample email data for spam classification will be used. For more detailed information, read the subsequent sections.</p><h3 id='1.-create-a-new-application.' class='header-anchors'>1. Create a new application.</h3><p>After the application is created, you will be given an access key and application ID for the application.</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1</pre></td><td class="code"><pre><span class="gp">$ </span>pio app new MyTextApp
</pre></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <h3 id='2.-import-the-tutorial-data.' class='header-anchors'>2. Import the tutorial data.</h3><p>There are three different data sets available, each giving a different use case for this engine. Please refer to the <strong>Data Source: Reading Event Data</strong> section to see how to appropriate modify the <code>DataSource</code> class for use with each respective data set. The default data set is an e-mail spam data set.</p><p>These data sets have already been processed and are ready for <a href="/datacollection/batchimport/">batch import</a>. Replace <code>***</code> with your actual application ID.</p><div class="highlight shell"><table style="border-spacing: 0"><tbody><tr><td class="gutter gl" style="text-align: right"><pre class="lineno">1
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