Loading data and creating a data model

In order to create an example application, I've downloaded a dataset from the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at the University of California, Irvine. They have a dataset repository you can use for training purposes. The datasets are organized by task (clustering, classification, regression, and others), by attribute type, by domain area, and so on. This is a very useful resource to practice your new skills and we'll be using it again in this book.

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You can find more information from Bache, K. and Lichman, M. (2013); UCI Machine Learning Repository [http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml]; Irvine, CA: University of California, School of Information and Computer Science.

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