The Digit Dataset#

This dataset is made up of 1797 8x8 images. Each image, like the one shown below, is of a hand-written digit. In order to utilize an 8x8 figure like this, we’d have to first transform it into a feature vector with length 64.

See here for more information about this dataset.

plot digits last image
# Code source: Gaël Varoquaux
# Modified for documentation by Jaques Grobler
# License: BSD 3 clause

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from sklearn import datasets

# Load the digits dataset
digits = datasets.load_digits()

# Display the last digit
plt.figure(1, figsize=(3, 3))
plt.imshow(digits.images[-1], cmap=plt.cm.gray_r, interpolation="nearest")
plt.show()

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.053 seconds)

Related examples

Recognizing hand-written digits

Recognizing hand-written digits

Feature agglomeration

Feature agglomeration

Various Agglomerative Clustering on a 2D embedding of digits

Various Agglomerative Clustering on a 2D embedding of digits

Label Propagation digits: Demonstrating performance

Label Propagation digits: Demonstrating performance

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