.. _toy_datasets:

Toy datasets

.. currentmodule:: sklearn.datasets

scikit-learn comes with a few small standard datasets that do not require to download any file from some external website.

They can be loaded using the following functions:

.. autosummary::

load_iris load_diabetes load_digits load_linnerud load_wine load_breast_cancer

These datasets are useful to quickly illustrate the behavior of the various algorithms implemented in scikit-learn. They are however often too small to be representative of real world machine learning tasks.

.. include:: ../../sklearn/datasets/descr/iris.rst

.. include:: ../../sklearn/datasets/descr/diabetes.rst

.. include:: ../../sklearn/datasets/descr/digits.rst

.. include:: ../../sklearn/datasets/descr/linnerud.rst

.. include:: ../../sklearn/datasets/descr/wine_data.rst

.. include:: ../../sklearn/datasets/descr/breast_cancer.rst