mlr loves OpenML

OpenML stands for Open Machine Learning and is an online platform, which aims at supporting collaborative machine learning online. It is an Open Science project that allows its users to share data, code and machine learning experiments. At the time of writing this blog I am in Eindoven at an OpenML workshop, where developers and scientists meet to work on improving the project. Some of these people are R users and they (we) are developing an R package that communicates with the OpenML platform. The OpenML R package can list and download data sets and machine learning tasks (prediction challenges).