blog-spark-naive-bayes-reuters

Simple example on how to use Naive Bayes on Spark using the popular Reuters 21578 dataset. More info on our blog: http://chimpler.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/classifiying-documents-using-naive-bayes-on-apache-spark-mllib/

Requirements

GravityLabs Goose (use our fork to be compatible with Scala 2.10):

$ git clone http://github.com/Chimpler/goose
$ mvn install

Setup

$ ./download_reuters.sh

Running classification

$ sbt run    

Examples

http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1942-1945-Silver-War-Nickel-Value.html => gold
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-06-10/china-using-dubai-style-fake-islands-to-reshape-south-china-sea => ship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean => grain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_wheat_bread => grain
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cow => livestock