README.md

metadata

license: apache-2.0
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: test
        path: data/test-*
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: title
      dtype: string
    - name: content
      dtype: string
    - name: author
      dtype: string
    - name: category
      dtype: string
    - name: published_date
      dtype: string
    - name: page_url
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 37552844
      num_examples: 9969
    - name: test
      num_bytes: 9997637
      num_examples: 8773
  download_size: 17155500
  dataset_size: 47550481

GhanaNews dataset is a collection of news articles from various Ghanaian News Portals (MyJoyOnline, GraphicOnline, GhanaWeb, PulseGh, CitiNewsOnline, ect). The dataset is provided by the academic comunity for research purposes in data mining (clustering, classification, etc), information retrieval (ranking, search, etc), xml, data compression, data streaming, and any other non-commercial activity.

The Ghana news topic classification dataset is constructed by Theophilus Siameh (theodondre@gmail.com) from the dataset above.

Load Dataset

pip install datasets

from datasets import load_dataset

train = load_dataset("worldboss/ghana-news", split="train")
test = load_dataset("worldboss/ghana-news", split="test")