On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:43:50 -0400, Warren Weckesser wrote:
As a steps towards the deprecation of `misc`, I propose that we create a new package, `scipy.data`, for holding data sets. `ascent()` and `face()` would move there, and the new ECG data set proposed in a current pull request (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/8627) would be put there.
We've been doing this in scikit-image for a long time, and now regret having any binary data in the repository; we are working on a way of hosting it outside instead. Can we standardize on downloader tools? There are examples in scikit-learn, dipy, and many other packages. We were thinking of a very lightweight spec + tools for solving this problem a while ago, but never got very far: https://github.com/data-pack/data-pack/pull/1/files Best regards Stéfan