How to do it...

The following is a list of open source data worth exploring if you would like to develop applications in this field:

  • UCI machine learning repository: This is an extensive library with search functionality. At the time of writing, there were more than 350 datasets. You can click on the https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.html link to see all the datasets or look for a specific set using a simple search (Ctrl + F).
  • Kaggle datasets: You need to create an account, but you can download any sets for learning as well as for competing in machine learning competitions. The https://www.kaggle.com/competitions link provides details for exploring and learning more about Kaggle, and the inner workings of machine learning competitions. ...

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