Did This Really Happen, or Was It Imagined?
From the writer's ratings, the time they took and the event they described, is this story a real memory, an imagined one or a retelling? It's a window on how memory and imagination differ.
The table
6,854 stories with the writer's ratings of the event, timing, a summary and demographics, labelled recalled, imagined or retold. It's in Welt's research catalogue as Human Memory and Cognition Storytelling Dataset, 6,854 rows by 23 columns, licensed CC0: Public Domain. The catalogue measures its signal at 0.74. At 6,854 rows and 22 features the table is larger than the model limits allow, so the walkthrough evaluates and fits on a seeded sample of 4,000 rows. TabICLv2 and Kumo Tabular Medium compete.
Walkthrough
Load it from the catalogue
Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.
import pandas as pd from welt import Client with Client() as client: item = client.research_datasets(q="human memory cognition storytelling", limit=1)["items"][0] info = client.research_dataset(item["id"]) data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"]) target = info["targets"][0] target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)Pick the rows
Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end. The models learn from a seeded sample of 4,000 of the rest, the most this table's width allows.
known = data.dropna(subset=[target]) new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1) table = known.drop(new_rows.index).sample(4000, random_state=7)Compare the models and predict
The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. ROC AUC runs from 0.5, a coin toss, to 1, a perfect ranking, and a lower Brier score means the probabilities can be trusted more. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.
with Client() as client: evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="classification", seed=7, models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium"]) model = evaluation.fit() print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "roc_auc_mean", "brier_mean"]]) features = new_rows.drop(columns=target) print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features), "probability": model.predict_proba(features).max(axis=1)}))
What you get
Try it
Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "human memory cognition storytelling", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".
Open with
- Type
- Use case
- Area
- Science
- Question
- Did This Really Happen, or Was It Imagined?
- Model
- TabICLv2, Kumo Tabular Medium
- Data
- Human Memory and Cognition Storytelling Dataset, 6,854 rows
- For
- Psychologists and language researchers
- Licence
- CC0: Public Domain