This directory includes a few sample datasets to get you started.

*   `california_housing_data*.csv` is California housing data from the 1990 US
    Census; more information is available at:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRhYtsvc5eOR2FWNCwaBiKL6suIOrxJig8LcSBbmCbyYsayia_DvPOOBlXZ4CAlQ5nlDD8kTaIDRwrN/pub

*   `mnist_*.csv` is a small sample of the
    [MNIST database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNIST_database), which is
    described at: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/

*   `anscombe.json` contains a copy of
    [Anscombe's quartet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet); it
    was originally described in

    Anscombe, F. J. (1973). 'Graphs in Statistical Analysis'. American
    Statistician. 27 (1): 17-21. JSTOR 2682899.

    and our copy was prepared by the
    [vega_datasets library](https://github.com/altair-viz/vega_datasets/blob/4f67bdaad10f45e3549984e17e1b3088c731503d/vega_datasets/_data/anscombe.json).