[SciPy-Dev] New subpackage: scipy.data

[Bennet Fauber]

I also agree -- if this is where datasets are to be kept and made
available, then 'datasets' is probably a better name.  That also
agrees with the R package called 'datasets', and so might be
considered a more 'customary' name.



On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Gael Varoquaux
<gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
> +1
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 04:06:02PM -0400, josef.pktd at 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 at 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 at 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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