5 Commonly Used Python Datasets
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Yeung WONG
Originally published on Towards AI.
There are some handy datasets ready to be analysed and can be easily obtained from Python scikit-learn package
Scikit-learn (sklearn) provides several datasets that are useful for practicing machine learning techniques. These datasets can be accessed through the sklearn.datasets module, which contains a variety of real-world and toy datasets that can be used for classification, regression, clustering, and more.
This article is for data scientist beginners who want to find some datasets for practicing the analyzing skillsets. Please find below a quick summary of some sklearn datasets and some relevant codes on how to analyse them.
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The iris dataset is a classic and widely used dataset for classification tasks in machine learning. It consists of… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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