How to load image dataset to Jupyter notebook?

Question

I am newbie in ML and Deep Learning and am currently working on Jupyter notebook.

I have an image dataset in the form of a zip file containing nearly 28000 images downloaded on my desktop. However, I am not being able to find any code that will make Jupyter notebook unzip the file and read it, so I'm able to work with it and develop a model.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

Are these threads from the past helpful?

• How to unzip files into a directory in Python
• How to unzip files into memory in Python (you may encounter issues with this approach if the images are too large to fit in Jupyter's allocated memory)
• How to read images from a directory in Python

If you go the directory route, a friendly reminder that you'll need to update the code in each example to match your directory structure. Eg if you want to save images to and read images from a directory called "image_data", then change the code examples to unzip files into that directory and read images from that directory.

Lastly, for finding out what files are in a directory (so that you can read them into your program), see this thread answering the same question .