Hi Gunjan,

Apparently the dataset is multi-label, so you need to use the
multilabel=True option.

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.datasets.load_svmlight_file.html

Mathieu

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Gunjan Dewan <dewangunjan6...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am using the following dataset from kaggle (train.csv):
> https://www.kaggle.com/c/lshtc/data
>
> The dataset is in libSVM format.
>
> However while trying to load it using load_svmlight_file, i get the
> following error
>
> File "_svmlight_format.pyx", line 72, in
> sklearn.datasets._svmlight_format._load_svmlight_file
> (sklearn\datasets\_svmlight_format.c:2120)
>
> ValueError: could not convert string to float: b'Data'
>
> I then removed the header but it is still giving me the same value error.
> Can anyone please help me out with this?
>
> I also wanted to know if there is any other way to convert the libSVM
> format into 2 matrices.
>
> Note : I just started out with sklearn and machine learning.
>
> Thanks,
> Gunjan
>
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