S13-Words-for-the-Future-notebooks/working-with-datasets/json-making-datasets.ipynb

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    "# Making (mini) datasets using JSON files"
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    "Ways of thickening, layering, ..., text."
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    "## JSON?\n",
    "\n",
    "JSON is an open standard file format that saves information in **key, value paired** objects. \n",
    "\n",
    "It looks like this:\n",
    "\n",
    "```\n",
    "{\n",
    "    \"name\": \"XPUB1\",\n",
    "    \"date\": \"26-10-2020\",\n",
    "    \"number_of_students\": 10\n",
    "}\n",
    "```\n",
    "\n",
    "In a JSON file, you can store both **strings** and **numbers**, but also **lists** or another **dictionary** object.\n",
    "\n",
    "Look for example how the number `10` is written without `\"`s around it."
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    "## dictionaries & JSON files\n",
    "\n",
    "Python uses a **dictionary** to store data in the same **key, value paired** way. \n",
    "\n",
    "`dict = {}`\n",
    "\n",
    "We will use a dictionary to store the data, and then save it as a JSON file.\n",
    "\n",
    "In this way, we can *add* one (of multiple) layer(s) of *value* to a word ..., such as:\n",
    "\n",
    "```\n",
    "{\n",
    "    \"common\": \"English\",\n",
    "    \"language\": \"communication system\",\n",
    "    \"formal\": 6,\n",
    "    \"semantic\": ['language', 'formal', 'informat'],\n",
    "    \"semantic\": { \n",
    "            \"type\": \"word\",\n",
    "            \"number of letters\": 7\n",
    "        }\n",
    "}\n",
    "```\n"
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    "# Adding a new key to the dictionary, assigning a string as value:\n",
    "dataset['new'] = 'NEW WORD'\n",
    "# or assigning a number as value:\n",
    "dataset['new'] = 10 "
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    "# Printing the tag of a word in the dictionary\n",
    "print(dataset['are'])"
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    "# Printing all the keys in the dataset\n",
    "print(dataset.keys())"
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    "## Making a sample dataset"
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    "# This is sample data, a list of words and POS tags:\n",
    "dataset = [('Common', 'JJ'), ('languages', 'NNS'), ('like', 'IN'), ('English', 'NNP'), ('are', 'VBP'), ('both', 'DT'), ('formal', 'JJ'), ('and', 'CC'), ('semantic', 'JJ'), (';', ':'), ('although', 'IN'), ('their', 'PRP$'), ('scope', 'NN'), ('extends', 'VBZ'), ('beyond', 'IN'), ('the', 'DT'), ('formal', 'JJ'), (',', ','), ('anything', 'NN'), ('that', 'WDT'), ('can', 'MD'), ('be', 'VB'), ('expressed', 'VBN'), ('in', 'IN'), ('a', 'DT'), ('computer', 'NN'), ('control', 'NN'), ('language', 'NN'), ('can', 'MD'), ('also', 'RB'), ('be', 'VB'), ('expressed', 'VBN'), ('in', 'IN'), ('common', 'JJ'), ('language', 'NN'), ('.', '.')]"
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      "{'are': 'VBP', 'extends': 'VBZ', 'be': 'VB', 'expressed': 'VBN'}\n"
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    "# Making a dataset with only verbs\n",
    "dataset = {}\n",
    "\n",
    "for word, tag in data:\n",
    "    if 'VB' in tag:\n",
    "        dataset[word] = tag\n",
    "\n",
    "print(dataset)"
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    "## Saving as JSON file"
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   "source": [
    "import json"
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      "{\n",
      "    \"are\": \"VBP\",\n",
      "    \"extends\": \"VBZ\",\n",
      "    \"be\": \"VB\",\n",
      "    \"expressed\": \"VBN\"\n",
      "}\n"
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    "out = json.dumps(dataset, indent=4)\n",
    "print(out)"
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    "f = open('json-dataset.json', 'w')\n",
    "f.write(out)\n",
    "f.close()"
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