Introducing TensorFlow Datasets

Public datasets fuel the machine learning research rocket (h/t Andrew Ng), but it's still too difficult to simply get those datasets into your machine learning pipeline. Every researcher goes through the pain of writing one-off scripts to download and prepare every dataset they work with, which all have different source formats and complexities. It does all the grungy work of fetching the source data and preparing it into a common format on disk, and it uses the [tf.data We're launching with 29 popular research datasets such as MNIST, Street View House Numbers, the 1 Billion Word Language Model Benchmark, and the Large Movie Reviews Dataset, and will add more in the months to come; we hope that you join in and add a dataset yourself. Try tfds out in a Colab notebook.