+1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 04:06:02PM -0400, josef.pktd@gmail.com wrote:
I don't like the name scipy.data and would prefer something more explicit like scipy.datasets.
My first reaction to the proposal was that we get now a subpackage for functions to work with data.
Like ndimage are functions for images signal are functions for signals spatial are functions for neighborhood
and data are functions for data (e.g. like pandas or similar)
Josef
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Eric Larson <larson.eric.d@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds like a good plan to me.
If others agree, I propose that we make existing (and new) data available in scipy.data for 1.1.0. Maybe a 2-release deprecation warning cycle before removing them from `scipy.misc` (possibly for removing everything if we can move the other remaining things, too)?
Eric
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Warren Weckesser <warren.weckesser@gmail.com> wrote:
According to the SciPy roadmap (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/doc/ROADMAP.rst.txt#misc), `scipy.misc` will eventually be removed. Currently, the combinatorial functions and the image-related operations are all deprecated. The only non-deprecated functions in `misc` are `central_diff_weights()`, `derivative()` and the two functions that return image data: `ascent()` and `face()`.
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.
An early version of the roadmap suggested moving the images to `scipy.ndimage`, but that is no longer in the text. I think a separate subpackage for data sets makes sense.
What do you think?
P.S. If there is already a similar proposal in the mailing list or on github, or any other older mailing list discussions related to this, let me know.
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