The Dataset Download Problem: Three Practical Approaches
If you are a beginner in the machine learning field and have worked on a unique project, you will know how tedious it can be to curate a dataset. If this problem still bothers you, don’t worry here are three of the most popular and important ways data can be gathered for your next machine learning project. 1. Downloading the Dataset This is the obvious and the easiest option. But finding that download button is often very hard; numerous websites provide readily available datasets. I am listing a few of them below. i) Kaggle ii) Data World iii) IMDb iv) UCI Machine Learning Repository v) Awesome-Public-Datasets on Github vi) Data.Gov 2. Scraping Data I)Scraping with Excel: Yes, you read that right, you can scrape data using Excel. As this is extremely unpopular I am giving a step by step guide on how to download data from a web source. To extract data from a webpage on timeanddate.com without images and save it in a format like CSV, you can follow these steps using Microsoft Excel: Copy...