A python util to fetch datasets from the LIBSVM website.
Getting design matrix and target variable is as easy as:
from libsvmdata import fetch_libsvm
X, y = fetch_libsvm("news20.binary")
Currently supported datasets are in libsvmdata.supported.
The datasets are saved in a subfolder libsvm inside libsvmdata.datasets.DATA_HOME, whose value is:
- the environment variable LIBSVMDATA_HOME if it exists,
- else, the environment variable XDG_DATA_HOME if it exists,
- else, $HOME/data.