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

I found this solution on https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml/issues/7 and this one was most useful for me. Just download the file from https://github.com/amplab/datascience-sp14/raw/master/lab7/mldata/mnist-original.mat

after that use this script:

from scipy.io import loadmat
mnist_path = "my/local/path/mnist-original.mat" #type the directory where you want to the file is located
mnist_raw = loadmat(mnist_path)
mnist = {
"data": mnist_raw["data"].T,
"target": mnist_raw["label"][0],
"COL_NAMES": ["label", "data"],
"DESCR": "mldata.org dataset: mnist-original",
}
print("Success!")