scikit-learn/scikit-learn — pull request #501 by jakevdp (2011-12-21 08:29:45+00:00)
Title: WIP: Species dataset/example fix

A few things:

- wrote a dataset loader for the species distribution data
- cleaned up and documented the species distribution example

This decreases run-time for the example from a few minutes to 15 seconds, and decreases the memory footprint of the data from ~140MB to ~50MB. This should be reduced to ~15MB when Gael's joblib compressor can be used.