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.. _covtype:
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Forest covertypes
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The samples in this dataset correspond to 30×30m patches of forest in the US,
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collected for the task of predicting each patch's cover type,
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i.e. the dominant species of tree.
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There are seven covertypes, making this a multiclass classification problem.
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Each sample has 54 features, described on the
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`dataset's homepage <http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Covertype>`_.
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Some of the features are boolean indicators,
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while others are discrete or continuous measurements.
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:func:`sklearn.datasets.fetch_covtype` will load the covertype dataset;
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it returns a dictionary-like object
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with the feature matrix in the ``data`` member
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and the target values in ``target``.
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The dataset will be downloaded from the web if necessary.
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