Yes openml seems a better choice. I would really like to have an easy way to import public datasets.
I think that fetch_mldata should throw a warning when it is imported if we think this is not working 100%. Best, Luca On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:35 PM Andreas Mueller <t3k...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess we use the matlab data with is not required by mldata. > We could add code that tries to fetch the matlab, and if that doesn't > work uses the hdf5, > with a soft dependency. > Not sure we want that as mldata seems somewhat defunc. > Maybe openml would be a better source (maybe once they finish their > python interface?). > > Cheers, > Andy > > On 12/09/2015 12:08 PM, Sebastian Raschka wrote: > > Hm, I have problems with that, too. Iris seems to work though. Just > checked out the default link where scikit tries to fetch from, it’s > > > > http://mldata.org/repository/data/download/matlab/ > > > > So, for iris it would be > > > > http://mldata.org/repository/data/download/matlab/iris/ > > > > but > > > > http://mldata.org/repository/data/download/matlab/mhc-nips11/ > > > > doesn’t exist on their website. > > > > Anyways, I would probably download the file manually for now via: > > http://mldata.org/repository/data/download/mhc-nips11/ > > > > or you could try to override the > > > > MLDATA_BASE_URL > > > > path by setting it to > > > > http://mldata.org/repository/data/download/ > > > > (not sure if the mhc-nips11 data is in a supported format though) > > > > Best, > > Sebastian > > > >> On Dec 9, 2015, at 6:00 AM, Luca Puggini <lucapug...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> I am trying to fetch this dataset from mldata. > >> http://mldata.org/repository/data/viewslug/mhc-nips11/ > >> > >> I have tried: > >> data = fetch_mldata('mhc-nips11', data_home=DG.load_path) > >> > >> but I obtain an error : > >> HTTP Error 404: Dataset 'mhc-nips11' not found on mldata.org. > >> > >> I do not understand how to identify the name of the dataset from the > webpage. > >> > >> Can you help me? > >> > >> Thanks a lot! > >> > >> Luca > >> -- > >> Sent by mobile phone > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Scikit-learn-general mailing list > >> Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > > Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general > -- Sent by mobile phone
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