Step 1 – getting the Iris dataset from the UCI Machine Learning Repository

Head over to the UCI Machine Learning Repository website at https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/iris and click on Download: Data Folder. Extract this folder someplace convenient and copy over iris.csv into the root of your project folder.

You may refer back to the project overview for an in-depth description of the Iris dataset. We depict the contents of the iris.csv file here, as follows:

A snapshot of the Iris dataset with 150 sets

You may recall that the iris.csv file is a 150-row file, with comma-separated values. 

Now that we have the dataset, the first step ...

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