How to apply "Remove Duplicates" on each attribute of an example set?
MavenHello everyone,
I'm a total beginner with Rapid Miner, and I apologize if my question is an obvious one or if it has been posted under another title. I work in Humanities, so I'm usually not very familiar with computing. However, Rapid Miner has given me amazing results so far, and I'd like to dig further.
I have a dateset of songs in which, for each Title, I have all the Artists involved in an column, all the Songwriters in a second column, and all the Producers in a third. I have been able to split these columns in order to have only a single name per box (Artist_1, Artist_2, Songwriter_1,...). The issue I have is that, for each song, an artist can also be the songwriter and/or the producer. I would like to get the name of each person involved only once.
As I have 60.000 songs, I first thought to do a Loop to automatically select one song after the other and apply "Remove Duplicates" for each of them. I would have expected a collection of individual sets, i.e. each song with only each name once. But I can't figure out how to automatically select only one song after another...
I hope my description is clear enough.
Thank you for your help :-)
Best Answers
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Edin_Klapic
Employee-RapidMiner, RMResearcher, Member Posts: 299 
RM Data Scientist
Hi @SylvainM,
Done
Happy Mining,
Edin
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</process>2 -
Edin_Klapic
Employee-RapidMiner, RMResearcher, Member Posts: 299 RM Data Scientist
Hi @SylvainM,
Good to hear that you made it work
The key is that Remove Duplicates as well as Aggregate only work "vertically" and compare the full cell content.
You were on the right track by splitting the data - the only missing piece is to use Transpose to make a column out of the list of names.
Then you can easily apply Remove Duplicates and can reaggregate them afterwards.
The only drawback of this solution is that you need to use Loop Examples because this can take some time depending on the number of data rows.
Edit:
Do you know about the Breakpoints in RapidMiner? You can put one right after every Operator and inspect each intermediate result.
The easiest way to achieve this is to select the Debug Mode (Enable all Breakpoints) in the Edit menu of the toolbar.
You can also enable them manually by either rightclicking on the Operator and select Breakpoint after or leftclicking an Operator and press F7.
Happy Mining,
Edin
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Answers
Hi @SylvainM,
To better understand can you share your dataset (or an extract of it) and
an example of what you want to get ?
Regards,
Lionel
Thanks Lionel for you help!
You will find attached an Excel sheet and its csv version.
Sylvain
Hi @SylvainM,
to well understand, you want that :
1° example :
become :
and
2° example :
become :
did I understand well ?
Regards,
Lionel
Hi Lionel,
That's exactly the idea!
What I've done so far is that I've transformed my data as follows:
First example :
from
to
Zach Crowell
Shane McAnally
Josh Osborne
Zach Crowell
Or as a second example:
from
to
What I would like to automatically get is something like :
Zach Crowell
Shane McAnally
Josh Osborne
and
I hope it's a little bit more clear...
Thank you so much for your help!
Sylvain
Can't you use the aggregate attribute to do this? You just select the attributes you need and want to keep as they are, and anything that you would like to combine you group using the concatenate option. This gives you your unique values and everything else concatenated in one or more attributes.
In a second step you could split the concatenated values again if needed.
Or, you generate an ID, aggregate with the fields you need and add the 'first' ID, and then you can create joins using your dataset with limited ID's and your original dataset.
Thanks Kayman for the answer, but unfortunately, it wouldn't work.
1. My number of rows is over 60.000,
2. I have to remove all the duplicates within each row,
3. But the attribution (column) of these duplicates vary from a row to another:
4. So I have to automaticaly apply "Remote Duplicates" for each row.
Issues:
1. I can't figure out how to do a "Remote Duplicates" iteration which would select a row after the other,
2. And the dimension of the result will not consistent from a row to the other (some may have only 2 names in it, others may have up to 10 names).
Partial solution:
1. I was therefore looking to get a collection of individual sets for each row that I would then Aggregate.
I hope I'm clear enough... Sorry if it's not the case!
But thanks for your help :-)
Sylvain
Hi @SylvainM,
Interesting but difficult task ......
My idea was to transpose your dataset and then use Remove Duplicates.
However after applying Remove Duplicates operator, there are still some duplicates and i don't know why... :
Has someone an idea ?
Regards,
Lionel
Hi Lionel,
I'm stuck at the exact same place. I think it's comes from the fact that Remove Duplicates doesn't delete the redundant data itself, but the box in which it is. As the number of duplicated datas is not consistent from a song to another, it creates a "dimensionality" conflict between the rows (some rows may be 5 boxes long, others may be 9 boxes long...).
That's the reason why I was thinking about isolating each row from the original dataset (a sort of Split), apply Remove Duplicates to each of them, and then Aggregate the collection together. And that's what I cannot do... :-/
Thanks again,
Sylvain
Thanks Edin!
I'm not super good with programing, so it will require me some time before being able to test it. I will confirm the problem Solved as soon as it works on my computer ;-)
Thanks a lot!
Sylvain
It took me time, but it works! Now, I should carefully try to understand why :smileyvery-happy:
Thanks a lot, Edin :-)
Sylvain
Great explanation and advice! You are answering a question I had yesterday in mind : Breakpoints are definitively something I will use a lot!
Thanks again for all your help!
Sylvain