MNIST Dataset

MNIST is a picture data set of handwritten numbers, which was organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States. A total of 250 handwritten digital pictures were collected, 50% of which were high school students and 50% were from the staff of the Census Bureau. The collection purpose of this data set is to realize the recognition of handwritten digits through algorithms. The data set contains 60000 images and labels, while the test set contains 10000 images and labels. The first 5000 training sets from the initial NIST program, The last 5000 test sets from the original NIST program. The first 5000 are more regular than the last 5000, because the first 5000 data come from the employees of the US Census Bureau, and the last 5000 data come from college students.