Machine Learning for OpenCV

Loading external datasets in Python

Thanks to the SciPy community, there are tons of resources out there for getting our hands on some data.

A particularly useful resource comes in the form of the sklearn.datasets package of scikit-learn. This package comes preinstalled with some small datasets that do not require us to download any files from external websites. These datasets include the following:

• load_boston: The Boston dataset contains housing prices in different suburbs of Boston along with a number of interesting features such as per capita crime rate by town, proportion of residential land, non-retail business, and so on
• load_iris: The Iris dataset contains three different types of iris flowers (setosa, versicolor, and virginica), ...