Hi! I'm working on an exercise about Spam Filters using Naive Bayes.

Got the data from TREC06 Public Spam Corpus. However, I'm having trouble starting.

Basically there is a file that contains directory of emails in another folder.

Format is as follows:

ham ../data/000/000

spam ../data/000/001

spam ../data/000/002

ham ../data/000/003

This file basically says that in the folder data > 000 > 000 is ham. Then data > 000 > 001 is spam, and so forth.

The folder named data has all the emails (1 email = 1 file).

Wondering how I can create a dataset that has all the email body in one? Kindly help me on the python code please.

PREVIOUS ANSWER

In order to create a dataset that has the email body of all emails in one file, first you will need to read in the spam filter file and create a list of files that you want to process. You can use the os module in Python to list all the files in your directory. Once you have the list of files, you can use the open() function to open each file and read the contents into a string. You can then append the classification (ham or spam) and the email content to a new list. Finally, you can use the csv module to write the data into a csv file for easy analysis. Here are a few tutorials on creating datasets from text files in Python that may help you better understand the code you need to write: 1. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/reading-writing-text-files-python/ 2. https://www.pythonforengineers.com/reading-and-writing-csv-files-in-python/ 3. https://www.learndatasci.com/tutorials/python-pandas-tutorial-complete-introduction-for-beginners/ Here is a step by step explanation of how to create a dataset with the email bodies in one file. Here is a step by step explanation of how to create a dataset with the email bodies in one file. 1. Use the os module to traverse your directory and get the list of emails. 2. Use the open() function to open each file and read its contents into a string. 3. Append the classification (ham or spam) and the email content as elements of a list. 4. Use the csv module to write all the data from the list into a csv file.

QUESTION

Kindly provide a sample code please. Having a hard time figuring it out.