[SciPy-Dev] New subpackage: scipy.data

[Ilhan Polat]

I agree with Eric: duplicating the existing ones in sp.datasets right away
and placing the appropriate deprecation warnings seems like a good way to
get rid of it.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:47 PM, Bennet Fauber <bennet at umich.edu> wrote:

> Would having a single datasets library increase visibility and
> potentially encourage the use of one dataset for multiple purposes?
> If they are roughly indexed, as the ones at the R datasets package
> site are, that could also be helpful for people who are finding their
> way to analytic capability via the catalog of examples.  Someone
> looking for electorcardiogram might get led to signal that way, if
> that matters.
>
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> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Lars G. <lagru at mailbox.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there a reason not to include those function where they'll most
> >> likely be used? Meaning the images `ascent` and `face` could move to
> >> `scipy.ndimage` and the signal `electrocardiogram` to `scipy.signal`?
> >
> > It would make them harder to discover, at least for me.
> >
> > On the developer side, if everything is in one subpackage, it would be
> > easier to keep track how many bytes are being consumed by data. The
> > scipy.datasets namespace would be a good place to put any common
> > data-loading code (for instance, if we start adding large datasets that
> will
> > be downloaded upon first use rather than being distributed in the scipy
> > wheel).
> >
> > --
> > Robert Kern
> >
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