#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ explore_dataset.py Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) for the CS/ML Academic Papers Dataset. Loads the locally-saved dataset (or downloads from HuggingFace Hub), computes summary statistics, identifies top terms per category via TF-IDF, and saves publication-ready visualisations as PNG files. Usage ----- # Analyse the local dataset python explore_dataset.py # Load from the HuggingFace Hub instead python explore_dataset.py --from-hub gr8monk3ys/cs-ml-academic-papers # Customise the output directory for plots python explore_dataset.py --plots-dir ./plots """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import logging from pathlib import Path import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np import pandas as pd from datasets import load_from_disk from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer # Use non-interactive backend so the script works headlessly. matplotlib.use("Agg") LOG = logging.getLogger("explore_dataset") DATA_DIR: Path = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "data" PLOTS_DIR: Path = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "plots" # Colour palette (colour-blind friendly, adapted from Tol's muted scheme). PALETTE = [ "#332288", "#88CCEE", "#44AA99", "#117733", "#999933", "#DDCC77", "#CC6677", "#882255", "#AA4499", ] # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Loading helpers # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def load_local(data_dir: Path) -> pd.DataFrame: """Load the dataset from a local ``save_to_disk`` directory.""" ds_path = data_dir / "hf_dataset" if not ds_path.exists(): raise FileNotFoundError( f"No saved dataset found at {ds_path}. " "Run create_dataset.py first or use --from-hub." ) dd = load_from_disk(str(ds_path)) frames = [dd[split].to_pandas() for split in dd] return pd.concat(frames, ignore_index=True) def load_hub(repo_id: str) -> pd.DataFrame: """Download the dataset from the HuggingFace Hub.""" from datasets import load_dataset dd = load_dataset(repo_id) frames = [dd[split].to_pandas() for split in dd] return pd.concat(frames, ignore_index=True) # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Statistics # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def print_summary(df: pd.DataFrame) -> None: """Print high-level summary statistics to stdout.""" separator = "=" * 60 print(f"\n{separator}") print(" CS/ML Academic Papers Dataset — Summary Statistics") print(separator) print(f"\n Total papers : {len(df):,}") print(f" Unique arXiv IDs : {df['arxiv_id'].nunique():,}") print(f" Unique primary cats : {df['primary_category'].nunique()}") # Date range if "published" in df.columns: dates = pd.to_datetime(df["published"], errors="coerce") valid = dates.dropna() if len(valid) > 0: print( f" Published date range : {valid.min():%Y-%m-%d} to {valid.max():%Y-%m-%d}" ) # Authors author_counts = df["authors"].apply(len) print(f"\n Authors per paper (mean): {author_counts.mean():.1f}") print(f" Authors per paper (med) : {author_counts.median():.0f}") # Abstract lengths abs_len = df["abstract"].str.split().str.len() print("\n Abstract length (words):") print(f" mean : {abs_len.mean():.0f}") print(f" median : {abs_len.median():.0f}") print(f" min : {abs_len.min():.0f}") print(f" max : {abs_len.max():.0f}") print(f" std : {abs_len.std():.1f}") # Category distribution print("\n Primary category distribution:") for cat, count in df["primary_category"].value_counts().items(): pct = 100.0 * count / len(df) print(f" {cat:<12s} {count:>5,} ({pct:5.1f}%)") # DOI availability has_doi = (df["doi"].str.len() > 0).sum() print(f"\n Papers with DOI : {has_doi:,} ({100 * has_doi / len(df):.1f}%)") print(f"\n{separator}\n") # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # TF-IDF keyword extraction # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def top_tfidf_terms( df: pd.DataFrame, text_col: str = "abstract", group_col: str = "primary_category", top_n: int = 15, ) -> dict[str, list[tuple[str, float]]]: """ For each group in *group_col*, fit a TF-IDF vectoriser on the documents belonging to that group and return the top-*n* terms by mean TF-IDF score. """ results: dict[str, list[tuple[str, float]]] = {} vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer( max_features=5000, stop_words="english", min_df=5, max_df=0.85, ngram_range=(1, 2), token_pattern=r"(?u)\b[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z+#\-]{2,}\b", ) for group, sub_df in df.groupby(group_col): texts = sub_df[text_col].tolist() if len(texts) < 10: LOG.warning( "Skipping group %s — too few documents (%d).", group, len(texts) ) continue tfidf_matrix = vectorizer.fit_transform(texts) mean_scores = np.asarray(tfidf_matrix.mean(axis=0)).flatten() feature_names = vectorizer.get_feature_names_out() top_indices = mean_scores.argsort()[::-1][:top_n] results[group] = [ (feature_names[i], float(mean_scores[i])) for i in top_indices ] return results def print_top_terms(terms_by_cat: dict[str, list[tuple[str, float]]]) -> None: """Pretty-print TF-IDF top terms per category.""" print("=" * 60) print(" Top TF-IDF Terms per Category") print("=" * 60) for cat in sorted(terms_by_cat): print(f"\n [{cat}]") for rank, (term, score) in enumerate(terms_by_cat[cat], 1): print(f" {rank:>2}. {term:<30s} (score: {score:.4f})") print() # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Visualisations # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def _savefig(fig: plt.Figure, path: Path) -> None: fig.savefig(str(path), dpi=150, bbox_inches="tight", facecolor="white") plt.close(fig) LOG.info("Saved plot -> %s", path) def plot_category_distribution(df: pd.DataFrame, output_dir: Path) -> None: """Bar chart of primary-category counts.""" counts = df["primary_category"].value_counts().sort_values(ascending=True) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 5)) bars = ax.barh(counts.index, counts.values, color=PALETTE[: len(counts)]) ax.bar_label(bars, padding=4, fontsize=9) ax.set_xlabel("Number of Papers") ax.set_title("Papers by Primary arXiv Category") ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) fig.tight_layout() _savefig(fig, output_dir / "category_distribution.png") def plot_abstract_length_histogram(df: pd.DataFrame, output_dir: Path) -> None: """Histogram of abstract word counts.""" lengths = df["abstract"].str.split().str.len() fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 5)) ax.hist(lengths, bins=50, color=PALETTE[0], edgecolor="white", alpha=0.85) ax.axvline( lengths.median(), color=PALETTE[6], linestyle="--", linewidth=1.5, label=f"Median ({lengths.median():.0f} words)", ) ax.axvline( lengths.mean(), color=PALETTE[4], linestyle=":", linewidth=1.5, label=f"Mean ({lengths.mean():.0f} words)", ) ax.set_xlabel("Abstract Length (words)") ax.set_ylabel("Frequency") ax.set_title("Distribution of Abstract Lengths") ax.legend(frameon=False) ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) fig.tight_layout() _savefig(fig, output_dir / "abstract_length_histogram.png") def plot_abstract_length_by_category(df: pd.DataFrame, output_dir: Path) -> None: """Box plot of abstract lengths grouped by primary category.""" df = df.copy() df["abstract_words"] = df["abstract"].str.split().str.len() cats = df["primary_category"].value_counts().index.tolist() data = [df.loc[df["primary_category"] == c, "abstract_words"].values for c in cats] fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 5)) bp = ax.boxplot(data, labels=cats, patch_artist=True, showfliers=False) for patch, colour in zip(bp["boxes"], PALETTE): patch.set_facecolor(colour) patch.set_alpha(0.7) ax.set_ylabel("Abstract Length (words)") ax.set_title("Abstract Length by Primary Category") ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) fig.tight_layout() _savefig(fig, output_dir / "abstract_length_by_category.png") def plot_authors_per_paper(df: pd.DataFrame, output_dir: Path) -> None: """Histogram of author counts per paper.""" author_counts = df["authors"].apply(len) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 5)) max_display = int(author_counts.quantile(0.99)) + 1 ax.hist( author_counts.clip(upper=max_display), bins=range(1, max_display + 2), color=PALETTE[2], edgecolor="white", alpha=0.85, align="left", ) ax.set_xlabel("Number of Authors") ax.set_ylabel("Frequency") ax.set_title("Authors per Paper") ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) fig.tight_layout() _savefig(fig, output_dir / "authors_per_paper.png") def plot_publication_timeline(df: pd.DataFrame, output_dir: Path) -> None: """Monthly publication counts over time.""" dates = pd.to_datetime(df["published"], errors="coerce").dropna() monthly = dates.dt.to_period("M").value_counts().sort_index() fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 5)) ax.bar( range(len(monthly)), monthly.values, color=PALETTE[1], edgecolor="white", width=1.0, ) # Show a subset of tick labels to avoid crowding. step = max(1, len(monthly) // 12) tick_indices = list(range(0, len(monthly), step)) ax.set_xticks(tick_indices) ax.set_xticklabels( [str(monthly.index[i]) for i in tick_indices], rotation=45, ha="right", fontsize=8, ) ax.set_xlabel("Month") ax.set_ylabel("Number of Papers") ax.set_title("Publication Timeline (Monthly)") ax.spines[["top", "right"]].set_visible(False) fig.tight_layout() _savefig(fig, output_dir / "publication_timeline.png") def plot_top_terms_heatmap( terms_by_cat: dict[str, list[tuple[str, float]]], output_dir: Path, top_n: int = 10, ) -> None: """Heatmap-style visualisation of top TF-IDF terms across categories.""" # Gather the union of top terms across all categories. all_terms: list[str] = [] for cat in sorted(terms_by_cat): for term, _ in terms_by_cat[cat][:top_n]: if term not in all_terms: all_terms.append(term) cats = sorted(terms_by_cat.keys()) matrix = np.zeros((len(all_terms), len(cats))) for j, cat in enumerate(cats): term_map = dict(terms_by_cat[cat]) for i, term in enumerate(all_terms): matrix[i, j] = term_map.get(term, 0.0) fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, max(6, 0.35 * len(all_terms)))) im = ax.imshow(matrix, aspect="auto", cmap="YlOrRd", interpolation="nearest") ax.set_xticks(range(len(cats))) ax.set_xticklabels(cats, fontsize=9) ax.set_yticks(range(len(all_terms))) ax.set_yticklabels(all_terms, fontsize=8) ax.set_title("Top TF-IDF Terms by Category") fig.colorbar(im, ax=ax, label="Mean TF-IDF Score", shrink=0.6) fig.tight_layout() _savefig(fig, output_dir / "tfidf_terms_heatmap.png") # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # CLI # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description="Exploratory Data Analysis for the CS/ML Academic Papers Dataset.", ) parser.add_argument( "--data-dir", type=str, default=str(DATA_DIR), help=f"Local data directory (default: {DATA_DIR}).", ) parser.add_argument( "--from-hub", type=str, default=None, help="Load the dataset from a HuggingFace Hub repo instead of locally.", ) parser.add_argument( "--plots-dir", type=str, default=str(PLOTS_DIR), help=f"Directory for saved plots (default: {PLOTS_DIR}).", ) parser.add_argument( "--verbose", action="store_true", help="Enable debug logging.", ) return parser.parse_args() def main() -> None: args = parse_args() logging.basicConfig( level=logging.DEBUG if args.verbose else logging.INFO, format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(name)s %(message)s", datefmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", ) # ------------------------------------------------------------------ # 1. Load data # ------------------------------------------------------------------ if args.from_hub: LOG.info("Loading dataset from HuggingFace Hub: %s", args.from_hub) df = load_hub(args.from_hub) else: LOG.info("Loading dataset from local directory: %s", args.data_dir) df = load_local(Path(args.data_dir)) LOG.info("Loaded %d papers.", len(df)) # ------------------------------------------------------------------ # 2. Summary statistics # ------------------------------------------------------------------ print_summary(df) # ------------------------------------------------------------------ # 3. TF-IDF keyword extraction # ------------------------------------------------------------------ LOG.info("Computing TF-IDF top terms per category ...") terms_by_cat = top_tfidf_terms(df) print_top_terms(terms_by_cat) # ------------------------------------------------------------------ # 4. Visualisations # ------------------------------------------------------------------ plots_dir = Path(args.plots_dir) plots_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) LOG.info("Generating visualisations -> %s", plots_dir) plot_category_distribution(df, plots_dir) plot_abstract_length_histogram(df, plots_dir) plot_abstract_length_by_category(df, plots_dir) plot_authors_per_paper(df, plots_dir) plot_publication_timeline(df, plots_dir) if terms_by_cat: plot_top_terms_heatmap(terms_by_cat, plots_dir) LOG.info("All plots saved to %s", plots_dir) print(f"Visualisations saved to: {plots_dir}") if __name__ == "__main__": main()