Classify tweets from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

This is an in class text classification competition (https://www.kaggle.com/c/cmps242-hw5) and our solution ranked 2nd place with loss of 0.167

Contents:

data/ includes training and testing data in csv file

figures/ includes plots used in the final report

LG_model.ipynb is the Jupyter notebook of Regularized Logistic Regression built from scratch

RNN_keras implements LSTM using Keras

RNN_tf builds LSTM directly using tensorflow

result/ contains the predication for evaluation loss on Kaggle

Report.pdf summarizes different approaches and compares their performance

Reference

https://github.com/jiegzhan/multi-class-text-classification-cnn-rnn/blob/master/train.py

https://github.com/richliao/textClassifier/blob/master/textClassifierConv.py