Dataset (machine learning)

A collection of raw data, commonly (but not exclusively) organized in one of the following formats:¹

• a spreadsheet
• a file in CSV format

Chacteristics

A dataset is characterized by its size and diversity. Good datasets are both large and highly diverse:²

• Size indicates the number of examples.
• Diversity indicates the range those examples cover.

See also

• ML crash course - Datasets, generalization, and overfitting

Footnotes

1. developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary#dataset ↩

2. https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/intro-to-ml/supervised ↩