I was particularly interested in loading the MNIST data for hand-writtten characters.
The particular line of code to download the data is
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from sklearn.datasets import fetch_mldata
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digits = fetch_mldata('MNIST original')
From the above you will get runtime errors.
Why? Because the underlying site that hosts the data has gone offline, source, https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml/issues/529 comment by "ageron commented on Dec 19, 2019" - copy from " to " and ctrl+f
The author of the comment said that fetch_mldata has been replaced by fetch_openml
In other words to download the well-known datasets, you will need to do this.
I thought I would like to share my experience of downloading data using your demonstration programs located at https://hyperopt.github.io/hyperopt-sklearn/.
I was particularly interested in loading the MNIST data for hand-writtten characters. The particular line of code to download the data is
.................. from sklearn.datasets import fetch_mldata ................ digits = fetch_mldata('MNIST original')From the above you will get runtime errors.
Why? Because the underlying site that hosts the data has gone offline, source, https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml/issues/529 comment by "ageron commented on Dec 19, 2019" - copy from " to " and ctrl+f
The author of the comment said that fetch_mldata has been replaced by fetch_openml
In other words to download the well-known datasets, you will need to do this.
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml ................ sonar_data = fetch_openml('sonar') iris_data = fetch_openml('iris')BUT It does not work for the MNIST handwriting data:
digits = fetch_openml('MNIST original')You'll get errors.
Questions please:
Info: OS: MS Win 7. Python: 3.8.5 sklearn: 0.22.2-post1 hpsklearn: no version method. But downloaded and installed 18th September 2020
Thank you, Anthony of Sydney