MNIST Dataset Description
MNIST: MNIST ( M odified N ational I nstitute of S tandards and T echnology ): · MNIST dataset , · which is a set of 70,000 small images of digits handwritten by ü high school students ü employees of the US Census Bureau . Each image is labeled with the digit it represents. Figure 1. Digits from the MNIST dataset · This set has been studied so much that it is often called the “ hello world ” of Machine Learning : ü whenever people come up with a new classification algorithm , ü they are curious to see how it will perform on MNIST , and ü anyone who learns Machine Learning tackles this dataset sooner or later. ü Scikit-Learn provides many helper functions to download popular datasets . ü MNIST is one of them. • The following code fetches the MNIST dataset : from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml MNIST = fetch_openml ( 'MNIST_784' , version = 1 ) MNIST . keys () • dict_keys(['data', 'target'
