libsvmdata 0.4.1

Fetcher for LIBSVM datasets

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.