NICHE: A Curated Dataset of Engineered Machine Learning Projects in Python

Machine learning (ML) has gained much attention and has been incorporated into our daily lives. While there are numerous publicly available ML projects on open source platforms such as GitHub, there have been limited attempts in filtering those projects to curate ML projects of high quality. The limited availability of such high-quality dataset poses an obstacle to understanding ML projects. To help clear this obstacle, we present NICHE, a manually labelled dataset consisting of 572 ML projects. Based on evidences of good software engineering practices, we label 441 of these projects as engineered and 131 as non-engineered. In this repository we provide "NICHE.csv" file that contains the list of the project names along with their labels, descriptive information for every dimension, and several basic statistics, such as the number of stars and commits. This dataset can help researchers understand the practices that are followed in high-quality ML projects. It can also be used as a benchmark for classifiers designed to identify engineered ML projects. <br> GitHub page: https://github.com/soarsmu/NICHE