This application is part of F# Advent 2019.
The purpose of it is to train a machine learning multiclass classification model that categorizes web links using ML.NET.
For a detailed writeup on how to build this application see the Use machine learning to categorize web links with F# and ML.NET blog post
This application was built on a Windows 10 PC, but should work cross-platform.
Click on this link to download and unzip the data anywhere on your PC.
The data contains information about several articles that are separated into four categories: business (b), science and technology (t), entertainment (e) and health (h). Visit the UCI Machine Learning repository website to learn more about the dataset.
Below is a sample of the data.
ID Title Url Publisher Category Story Hostname Timestamp
2 Fed's Charles Plosser sees high bar for change in pace of tapering http://www.livemint.com/Politics/H2EvwJSK2VE6OF7iK1g3PP/Feds-Charles-Plosser-sees-high-bar-for-change-in-pace-of-ta.html Livemint b ddUyU0VZz0BRneMioxUPQVP6sIxvM www.livemint.com 1394470371207
3 US open: Stocks fall after Fed official hints at accelerated tapering http://www.ifamagazine.com/news/us-open-stocks-fall-after-fed-official-hints-at-accelerated-tapering-294436 IFA Magazine b ddUyU0VZz0BRneMioxUPQVP6sIxvM www.ifamagazine.com 1394470371550
4 Fed risks falling 'behind the curve', Charles Plosser says http://www.ifamagazine.com/news/fed-risks-falling-behind-the-curve-charles-plosser-says-294430 IFA Magazine b ddUyU0VZz0BRneMioxUPQVP6sIxvM www.ifamagazine.com 1394470371793
Inside the console application directory, create a new directory called data and copy the newsCorpora.csv file to it.
mkdir dataNavigate to the console application directory and enter the following command into the terminal:
dotnet run