[SciPy-Dev] New subpackage: scipy.data

[Andrew Nelson]

There's lots of possible datasets that one can add. For example, it might
be worthwhile providing the NIST Statistical Reference Datasets, such as
those for non-linear regression.

On 30 April 2018 at 13:10, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 1:14 AM Lars G. <lagru at mailbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 29.04.2018 08:21, Robert Kern wrote:
> > > I believe that one of the motivations for adding the ECG dataset was to
> > > make some of the scipy.signal unit tests more realistic. Is that
> > > something you'd like to forbid? On the one hand, if you're strapped for
> > > space, you probably want to remove the test suites as well. On the
> other
> > > hand, you do want to be able to test your stripped installation!
> >
> > Right now, the ECG dataset is not used in unit tests. Do you perhaps
> > mean the benchmark suite?
>
> Yes, I misremembered the comment about making the benchmarks more
> realistic as making the tests more realistic. Nonetheless, my point
> remains: a fairly reasonable motivation for have datasets are the unit
> tests, as statsmodels does.
>
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