Cannot get MNIST database through Anaconda/jupyter

Question

Hu guys,

I\'m new to python/anaconda/jupyter/numPy, panda, etc.... so please excuse me if it\'s a really stupid question. I\'m trying to obtain MNIST database by using a

Answer 1

Late to the party, but i had the same error and my simple solution was to run the two commands separately, like:

from sklearn import datasets

and make sure you run this in a separate line in jupyter notebook

mnist_data = datasets.fetch_mldata('MNIST original', data_home = 'datasets/')