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Practice Machine Learning with Datasets from the UCI

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by Jason Brownlee on July 5, 2019 in Start Machine Learning  119

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Where can you get good datasets to practice machine learning?

Datasets that are real-world so that they are interesting and relevant, although small enough for you to review in
Excel and work through on your desktop.

In this post you will discover a database of high-quality, real-world, and well understood machine learning datasets
that you can use to practice applied machine learning.

This database is called the UCI machine learning repository and you can use it to structure a self-study program
and build a solid foundation in machine learning.

Practice Practice Practice

Photo by Phil Roeder, some rights reserved.
Why Do We Need Practice Datasets?
If you are interested in practicing applied machine learning, you need datasets on which to practice.

This problem can stop you dead.

Which dataset should you use?

Should you collect your own or use one off the shelf?
Which one and why?

I teach a top-down approach to machine learning where I encourage you to learn a process for working a problem
end-to-end, map that process onto a tool and practice the process on data in a targeted way. For more information
see my post “Machine Learning for Programmers: Leap from developer to machine learning practitioner“.

So How Do You Practice In A Targeted Way?

I teach that the best way to get started is to practice on datasets that have specific traits.

I recommend you select traits that you will encounter and need to address when you start working on problems of
your own such as:

Different types of supervised learning such as classification and regression.

Different sized datasets from tens, hundreds, thousands and millions of instances.
Different numbers of attributes from less than ten, tens, hundreds and thousands of attributes
Different attribute types from real, integer, categorical, ordinal and mixtures
Different domains that force you to quickly understand and characterize a new problem in which you have no
previous experience.

You can create a program of traits to study and learn about and the algorithm you need to address them, by
designing a program of test problem datasets to work through.

Such a program has a number of practical requirements, for example:

Real-World: The datasets should be drawn from the real world (rather than being contrived). This will keep
them interesting and introduce the challenges that come with real data.
Small: The datasets need to be small so that you can inspect and understand them and that you can run many
models quickly to accelerate your learning cycle.
Well-Understood: There should be a clear idea of what the data contains, why it was collected, what the
problem is that needs to be solved so that you can frame your investigation.
Baseline: It is also important to have an idea of what algorithms are known to perform well and the scores they
achieved so that you have a useful point of comparison. This is important when you are getting started and
learning because you need quick feedback as to how well you are performing (close to state-of-the-art or
something is broken).
Plentiful: You need many datasets to choose from, both to satisfy the traits you would like to investigate and (if
possible) your natural curiosity and interests.

For beginners, you can get everything you need and more in terms of datasets to practice on from the UCI Machine
Learning Repository.

What is the UCI Machine Learning Repository?

The UCI Machine Learning Repository is a database of machine learning problems that you can access for free.
It is hosted and maintained by the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at the University of
California, Irvine. It was originally created by David Aha as a graduate student at UC Irvine.

For more than 25 years it has been the go-to place for machine learning researchers and machine learning
practitioners that need a dataset.

UCI Machine Learning Repository

UCI Machine Learning Repository

Each dataset gets its own webpage that lists all the details known about it including any relevant publications that
investigate it. The datasets themselves can be downloaded as ASCII files, often the useful CSV format.

For example, here is the webpage for the Abalone Data Set that requires the prediction of the age of abalone from
their physical measurements.

Benefits of the Repository

Some beneficial features of the library include:

Almost all datasets are drawn from the domain (as opposed to being synthetic), meaning that they have real-
world qualities.
Datasets cover a wide range of subject matter from biology to particle physics.
The details of datasets are summarized by aspects like attribute types, number of instances, number of
attributes and year published that can be sorted and searched.
Datasets are well studied which means that they are well known in terms of interesting properties and
expected “good” results. This can provide a useful baseline for comparison.
Most datasets are small (hundreds to thousands of instances) meaning that you can readily load them in a text
editor or MS Excel and review them, you can also easily model them quickly on your workstation.

Browse the 300+ datasets using this handy table that supports sorting and searching.

Criticisms of the Repository

Some criticisms of the repository include:

The datasets are cleaned, meaning that the researchers that prepared them have often already performed
some pre-processing in terms of the the selection of attributes and instances.
The datasets are small, this is not helpful if you are interested in investigating larger scale problems and
techniques.
There are so many to choose from that you can be frozen by indecision and over-analysis. It can be hard to
just pick a dataset and get started when you are unsure if it is a “good dataset” for what you’re investigating.
Datasets are limited to tabular data, primarily for classification (although clustering and regression datasets are
listed). This is limiting for those interested in natural language, computer vision, recommender and other data.

Take a look at the repository homepage as it shows featured datasets, the newest datasets as well as which
datasets are currently the most popular.

A Self-Study Program
So, how can you make the best use of the UCI machine learning repository?

I would advise you to think about the traits in problem datasets that you would like to learn about.
These may be traits that you would like to model (like regression), or algorithms that model these traits that you
would like to get more skillful at using (like random forest for multi-class classification).

An example program might look like the following:

Binary Classification: Pima Indians Diabetes Data Set (available here)

Multi-Class Classification: Iris Data Set
Regression: Wine Quality Data Set
Categorical Attributes: Breast Cancer Data Set
Integer Attributes: Computer Hardware Data Set
Classification Cost Function: German Credit Data
Missing Data: Horse Colic Data Set

This is just a list of traits, can pick and choose your own traits to investigate.

I have listed one dataset for each trait, but you could pick 2-3 different datasets and complete a few small projects
to improve your understanding and put in more practice.

For each problem, I would advise that you work it systematically from end-to-end, for example, go through the
following steps in the applied machine learning process:

1. Define the problem

2. Prepare data
3. Evaluate algorithms
4. Improve results
5. Write-up results

Select a systematic and repeatable process that you can

use to deliver results consistently.

For more on the process of working through a machine learning problem systematically, see my post titled “Process
for working through Machine Learning Problems“.

The write-up is a key part.

It allows you to build up a portfolio of projects that you refer back to as a reference on future projects and get a
jump-start, as well as use as a public resume or your growing skills and capabilities in applied machine learning.
For more on building a portfolio of projects, see my post “Build a Machine Learning Portfolio: Complete Small
Focused Projects and Demonstrate Your Skills“.

But, What If…

I don’t know a machine learning tool.
Pick a tool or platform (like Weka, R or scikit-learn) and use this process to learn a tool. Cover off both practicing
machine learning and getting good at your tool at the same time.

I don’t know how to program (or code very well).

Use Weka. It has a graphical user interface and no programming is required. I would recommend this to beginners
regardless of whether they can program or not because the process of working machine learning problems maps
so well onto the platform.

I don’t have the time.

With a strong systematic process and a good tool that covers the whole process, I think that you could work
through a problem in one-or-two hours. This means you could complete one project in an evening or over two
evenings.

You choose the level of detail to investigate and it is a good idea to keep it light and simple when just starting out.

I don’t have a background in the domain I’m modeling.

The dataset pages provide some background on the dataset. Often you can dive deeper by looking at publications
or the information files accompanying the main dataset.

I have little to no experience working through machine learning problems.

Now is your time to start. Pick a systematic process, pick a simple dataset and a tool like Weka and work through
your first problem. Place that first stone in your machine learning foundation.

I have no experience at data analysis.

No experience in data analysis is required. The datasets are simple, easy to understand and well explained. You
simply need to read up on them using the data sets home page and by looking at the data files themselves.

Action Step
Select a dataset and get started.

If you are serious about your self-study, consider designing a modest list of traits and corresponding datasets to
investigate.

You will learn a lot and build a valuable foundation for diving into more complex and interesting problems.

Did you find this post useful? Leave a comment and let me know.

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119 Responses to Practice Machine Learning with Datasets from the UCI Machine
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hossein September 11, 2015 at 3:22 pm #

dear Jason,
You are the best teacher.because you make simple things.

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Jason Brownlee September 11, 2015 at 5:22 pm #

Thanks hossein!
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Satyam January 9, 2020 at 4:00 am #

Awesome post for any newbies in Data Science, really appreciate the work.

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Jason Brownlee January 9, 2020 at 7:32 am #

Thanks!

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Khin myo myat April 10, 2020 at 9:23 pm #

Thank you so much Sir Jason.I am surely looking forward to pracitsing like you suggest

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Jason Brownlee April 11, 2020 at 6:18 am #

You’re welcome.

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Rash December 2, 2015 at 8:12 pm #

Hi Jason,
Thank you for this great post. I just began my study of data analysis and was totally confused when to began doing
projects. This post is truly enlightening.

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Justin December 25, 2015 at 8:05 pm #

You mention something that is confusing… “For example, here is the webpage for the Abalone Data Set that
requires the prediction of the age of abalone from their physical measurements.”

Why do you use the word “requires”? The webpage requires… Or the dataset requires? No. Confuses.

Wouldn’t this make more sense…”The dataset provides content to the learning machine to predict the age of an
Abalone from physical measurements.”

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abhijit kamune April 5, 2016 at 1:59 am #

I can say it is a one stop solution for Machine Learning Problem.

Thank you very much Jason ,You make my life easy….. 🙂

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Jason Brownlee April 8, 2016 at 1:37 pm #

You’re very welcome.

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Wlodzimierz April 14, 2016 at 10:26 pm #

Hi, could you recommend me one or a few data sets on computer system resources usage just for the
purpose of machine learning ?
Thanks in advance.

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Adam June 25, 2016 at 6:55 am #

Hi Jason,

I have a question for example dataset wine quality:

how should I look at data?
I’ve opened the data and I can see that density and resuidal sugar are higly corelated. But what now? I should try to
draw a plot for each feature? (e.g plot(x1,quality) plot(x2,quality) and so on?
Could you give some advice what steps should be taken?

Regards,
Adam

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Jason Brownlee June 26, 2016 at 5:59 am #

Hi Adam, take a look at this process for working through an applied machine learning problem:
https://machinelearningmastery.com/process-for-working-through-machine-learning-problems/

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Elton June 30, 2016 at 10:00 am #

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Thank.

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Jason Brownlee July 13, 2016 at 5:00 am #

Glad to hear it!

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Sonal Somani August 2, 2016 at 1:31 pm #

Hey Jason, this is really nicely broken down into steps. I always felt that I get too involved into the problems
that I miss the big picture but I think keeping a process and working through it is a good way to approach learning.
And I am definitely looking forward to practising like you suggest. Thanks!

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Jason Brownlee August 3, 2016 at 5:53 am #

I’m glad it was useful to you Sonal.

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kay August 14, 2016 at 6:49 am #

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Got a nice link flow is nice in simple words and detailed explanation.

Thanks

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Jason Brownlee August 19, 2016 at 5:23 am #

I’m glad it’s useful Kartik.

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Lumilog September 9, 2016 at 9:08 am #

Hi Jason!

How do you handle the datasets not seeming to have any benchmarks for what a poor, fair, or good accuracy is for
prediction? If I pick some binary classification dataset to practice on and get say, an ROC = 0.6, how am I to know if
that’s a fantastic result or there’s still a lot of improving I could do with respect to how others have done?

Thanks

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Jason Brownlee September 10, 2016 at 7:10 am #
 Great question!

The answer is to use ZeroR or similar to baseline the problem and determine the point from which all other
results can be compared. After you run through a suite of good standard algorithms you will get a feel for what
result is “easy” to achieve, providing a new baseline from which to improve.

From there, interpretation of results is problem specific.

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almas November 16, 2016 at 9:25 pm #

This post is really good for beginners sir,thank you

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Jason Brownlee November 17, 2016 at 9:53 am #

I’m glad to hear it almas.

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LinboLee November 21, 2016 at 12:42 am #

Hello Jason,
Thanks for your post, it is very helpful. But I have one question, which is how to validate your results or your
implemented algorithms? How to compare our results with a better one?

Thanks.

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Jason Brownlee November 22, 2016 at 6:50 am #

Hi LinboLee, good questions.

You can evaluate the performance of your models by estimating their performance on unseen data. You can do
this with resampling methods like k-fold cross validation.

You can then compare the skill of multiple algorithms on the problem.

You can compare to previously published results by re-creating their test setup.

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Lautaro June 29, 2017 at 3:55 am #

Very good article, as always you can articulate the theoretical and practical issues in predictive modeling.

I also recommend kaggle data sets. They are also free, have big and small data sets.

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Great suggestion.

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Thanks Francisco, kind of you to say. Hang in there!

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I’m glad it helped.

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Your articles really very helpful!

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Thanks Vova, I really appreciate your support.

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Shane November 28, 2017 at 8:39 am #

I love how you break down the types of machine learning problems. This is a great resource!

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Jason Brownlee November 28, 2017 at 8:46 am #

Thanks Shane.

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Parvez Khan January 8, 2018 at 2:56 pm #

Hi Jason

Thanks for excellent stuff on ML.

I really get my ideas clear just by yoir posts.
I got my current assignmen to compair at least four pricelists and to suggest the final prices list for our
company.please suggest the suitable algorithm for the same.

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Jason Brownlee January 8, 2018 at 3:55 pm #

See this post:

https://machinelearningmastery.com/a-data-driven-approach-to-machine-learning/

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S B Iqbal January 9, 2018 at 5:14 pm #

Hi Jason,

Thanks for a great post.

Could you also advice on how to scrap data from UC Irvine database using R. It would be great to see a tutorial on
that.

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Jason Brownlee January 10, 2018 at 5:21 am #
 No need to scrape the dataset, you can download them directly as CSV files.

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praveen kumar March 5, 2018 at 5:48 pm #

How can i prepare my own dataset? Can you suggest me the path?
Here Raw data may be either images or integer array or character array or strings.

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Jason Brownlee March 6, 2018 at 6:09 am #

I recommend this process:

https://machinelearningmastery.com/start-here/#process

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Mustafa March 13, 2018 at 5:49 pm #

Thank you for your support.

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Jason Brownlee March 14, 2018 at 6:17 am #

You’re welcome.

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Asma May 11, 2018 at 8:47 pm #

Hi Jason,

I want to prepare a white paper submission on Responsible AI or Ethical AI.Can you suggest any usecase or problem
statement for it

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Jason Brownlee May 12, 2018 at 6:31 am #

No, sorry it is not my area of expertise.

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Arjun June 29, 2018 at 11:25 pm #

I wish i could be in regular touch with you bacause i want to be a REAL good Data Scientist and you
REALLY know the path which can lead one there.
This website is the best source for learning machine learning.

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Jason Brownlee June 30, 2018 at 6:08 am #

You are in touch with me, ask questions any time via comments or via the contact form.
 My best advice is here:
https://machinelearningmastery.com/start-here/

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Aditya July 3, 2018 at 4:50 am #

The prima dataset is not avalilable now.

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Jason Brownlee July 3, 2018 at 6:29 am #

You can get it here:

https://github.com/jbrownlee/Datasets

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Amrit July 14, 2018 at 8:47 pm #

hello sir
can you please guide me the data set for urban water supply

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Jason Brownlee July 15, 2018 at 6:12 am #

It is the default value. You can learn more about how to configure the model here:
https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/models/keyedvectors.html

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Paul A. Gureghian July 21, 2018 at 5:13 am #

how to download a dataset from UCI? just the usual way in Python and R ? is there a download link on the
site ?

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Jason Brownlee July 21, 2018 at 6:40 am #

They have a download link and you can use a web browser.

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Winnie November 13, 2018 at 12:40 am #

Thank you so much for the article

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Jason Brownlee November 13, 2018 at 5:46 am #

I’m happy it helped.

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Liston November 19, 2018 at 5:08 pm #

Good post. I am in applied machine learning application. There is need to evaluate algorithms on good
datasets.

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Jason Brownlee November 20, 2018 at 6:32 am #

Thanks.

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Theresa November 21, 2018 at 10:39 pm #

thank you Jason. you have no idea of how helpful this is to me now. God bless

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Jason Brownlee November 22, 2018 at 6:24 am #

I’m glad it helps!

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Pooja December 21, 2018 at 6:01 pm #

Hello sir,
Thank you for such a nice information, it is very simple to understand. As a student of M Sc (Statistics), i m looking
for project in data mining, can you suggest something?

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Jason Brownlee December 22, 2018 at 6:03 am #

Thanks, perhaps experiment with some of these dataset.

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Viva March 9, 2019 at 7:20 pm #

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your articles. I have recently started reading your page and articles. I am a practicing analyst who enjoys
to play around data, what I lack is systematic approach to implementation of algorithms, I know them theoretically but
don’t have the confidence on implementing them. I have also joined mailing subscription from your website and also
reading your number of articles to start working with a plan. I generally get lost and overwhelmed in my learning
process and hence leave it between. Would request you to help me on how can I keep my learning process
productive.

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Jason Brownlee March 10, 2019 at 8:16 am #
 Try working through this tutorial:
https://machinelearningmastery.com/machine-learning-in-python-step-by-step/

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Shaima March 19, 2019 at 1:22 am #

You are the best as usual professor jason

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Jason Brownlee March 19, 2019 at 8:58 am #

Thanks. I’m glad it helped.

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Priya August 17, 2019 at 2:27 am #

where i can get plant disease dataset for machine learning, can anyone please suggest me..

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Jason Brownlee August 17, 2019 at 5:56 am #

This might help:

https://machinelearningmastery.com/faq/single-faq/where-can-i-get-a-dataset-on-___

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Manjunath September 11, 2019 at 4:20 pm #

how to read the uci data sets in excel?could anyone help!

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Jason Brownlee September 12, 2019 at 5:12 am #

See this tutorial:

https://machinelearningmastery.com/load-machine-learning-data-python/

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shadrack kodondi October 16, 2019 at 9:05 pm #

after hovering around so many sites,i came here,the best i have ever visted for ML introductions…thanks so
much Jason

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Jason Brownlee October 17, 2019 at 6:31 am #

Thanks!
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Adarsh January 30, 2020 at 7:08 pm #

Hi Jason Sir,
How do I get the csv file from the UCI repository…………i am getting a txt file that is getting opened by Notepad
PLz help fast

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Jason Brownlee January 31, 2020 at 7:43 am #

A CSV file is a text file.

Also, you can get the files here:

https://github.com/jbrownlee/Datasets

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Chao March 17, 2020 at 2:17 am #

Hi, Jason.

Thank you for your posts which are so helpful to me.

Regarding the datsets from UCI repository, I’m wondering how I get csv format. Because I found that the files there
are with extension .data, not .csv.

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Jason Brownlee March 17, 2020 at 8:18 am #

You might need to convert some to CSV format. Some might have .data extension and already have a
CSV format.

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Peggy March 17, 2020 at 3:01 pm #

Thanks Jason, it is a wonderful tutorial for me to start learning machine learning. It gives me confidence to
continue the study.

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Jason Brownlee March 18, 2020 at 6:07 am #

Thanks, I’m happy to hear that.

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Fashi Uddin April 15, 2020 at 4:58 pm #

Wish I have this in my early time when I was starting with Data Science. Practice is the key for sure reading
soo many books will give you knowledge about the process but in one or two directions. Its practice which gives you
the exposure for real life scenarios.
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Jason Brownlee April 16, 2020 at 5:58 am #

Thanks!

I agree.

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Sachin Koti May 1, 2020 at 11:00 pm #

Wonderfully explained…
Thanks Jason!!
Knowledge grows by sharing and you are already great in doing that.

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Jason Brownlee May 2, 2020 at 5:47 am #

Thanks!

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wysohn May 6, 2020 at 3:44 pm #

This is the only site I often come back, and I think it simply shows how valuable the information you share is!

Thank you so much for spending time and putting lots of effort in doing this.

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Jason Brownlee May 7, 2020 at 6:37 am #

Thanks, you are very kind!

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Simon J Samaha June 10, 2020 at 2:33 pm #

Awesome insights.
Now i have experiment with weka 😉

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Jason Brownlee June 11, 2020 at 5:49 am #

You’re welcome.

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salwa rizk August 4, 2020 at 5:55 pm #

Thank you for your help,

as it may be a reason to give hope to non-specialists like me to start again after many failed attempts. i am grateful
for all helpful like you
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Jason Brownlee August 5, 2020 at 6:09 am #

You’re welcome!

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robin August 19, 2020 at 4:36 am #

@Jason ,

Thanks for your great work. It has improved my ML knowledge and increased my interest. I was wondering if there
are other ML repository you know of, specially, the ones that have raw datasets- just for the sake of working on my
data cleaning/pre-processing skills?

Thanks!

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Jason Brownlee August 19, 2020 at 6:06 am #

Yes, see this:

https://machinelearningmastery.com/faq/single-faq/where-can-i-get-a-dataset-on-___

And this:
https://github.com/jbrownlee/Datasets

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sai sowmya grandhi August 25, 2020 at 3:21 pm #

You made me feel that coding is not big deal as everybody exaggerates it. I have started using R
programming only because of you. Thanks for the confidence.

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Jason Brownlee August 26, 2020 at 6:44 am #

Well done on your progress!

Yes, it’s not a big deal – just another tool for us to use to get a job done, like writing.

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java37 November 1, 2020 at 8:08 am #

Much obliged to you for your posts which are so useful to me.

Concerning datsets from UCI vault, I’m considering how I get csv design. Since I found that the records there are
with expansion .data, not .csv.

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Jason Brownlee November 1, 2020 at 8:26 am #

You can change the .data to .csv.

 Also, Python does not care about the extension, only the content.

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Jean-Christophe Chouinard February 26, 2021 at 2:38 pm #

Thanks for the list of models with their classifications, makes it easier to start.

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Jason Brownlee February 27, 2021 at 6:00 am #

You’re welcome.

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Nhung July 5, 2021 at 7:09 pm #

Thank you so much for the great sharing!

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Jason Brownlee July 6, 2021 at 5:47 am #

You’re welcome.

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Niaz Ahmad February 22, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

Sir, your work is greatly appreciated, kindly clear me at a point i want to detect a plant/fruit diseases system,
will it be better for me to use the existing datasets or to prepare my own. thanks and regards

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James Carmichael February 23, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

Hi Niaz…Existing datasets may be tremendous help along with transfer learning.

https://machinelearningmastery.com/how-to-improve-performance-with-transfer-learning-for-deep-learning-
neural-networks/

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K.Soumaia October 1, 2022 at 6:14 am #

Thanks and regards

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James Carmichael October 1, 2022 at 6:52 am #

You are very welcome K.Soumaia!

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