A curated list of 20 public datasets for your first serious ML project
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-11-07
A task-indexed list of quality public datasets for a first serious ML project:
- Image classification: CIFAR-10; object detection: COCO; semantic segmentation: Cityscapes
- Text classification: AG News; sentiment: IMDb Reviews; NER: CoNLL-2003; translation: WMT; QA: SQuAD 2.0
- Speech recognition: Mozilla Common Voice; recommendation: MovieLens; time-series forecasting: M4
- Fraud detection: Credit Card Fraud Detection (ULB); tabular: Adult Census Income; anomaly detection: MVTec AD
- Medical image segmentation: BraTS; graph neural networks: OGB; RL: Minari; code generation: HumanEval; human activity recognition: UCI HAR; predictive maintenance: NASA C-MAPSS
The author's advice: pick a task, build a baseline, improve it, and document everything.
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