[SciPy-Dev] New subpackage: scipy.data

[Warren Weckesser]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Stefan van der Walt <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> 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;



Can you summarize the problems that make you regret including the data?

Warren



> 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
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