Machine Learning

Machine Learning Datasets in R (10 datasets you can use right now)

Last Updated on August 15, 2020

You need standard datasets to practice machine learning.

In this short post you will discover how you can load standard classification and regression datasets in R.

This post will show you 3 R libraries that you can use to load standard datasets and 10 specific datasets that you can use for machine learning in R.

It is invaluable to load standard datasets in R so that you can test, practice and experiment with machine learning techniques and improve your skill with the platform.

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Practice On Small Well-Understood Datasets

There are hundreds of standard test datasets that you can use to practice and get better at machine learning.

Most of them are hosted for free on the UCI Machine Learning Repository. These datasets are useful because they are well understood, they are well behaved and they are small.

This last point is critical when practicing machine learning because: