How to convert a Scikit-learn dataset to a Pandas dataset

Question

Manually, you can use pd.DataFrame constructor, giving a numpy array (data) and a list of the names of the columns (columns). To have everything in one DataFrame, you can concatenate the features and the target into one numpy array with np.c_[...] (note the []):

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris

# save load_iris() sklearn dataset to iris
# if you'd like to check dataset type use: type(load_iris())
# if you'd like to view list of attributes use: dir(load_iris())
iris = load_iris()

# np.c_ is the numpy concatenate function
# which is used to concat iris['data'] and iris['target'] arrays 
# for pandas column argument: concat iris['feature_names'] list
# and string list (in this case one string); you can make this anything you'd like..  
# the original dataset would probably call this ['Species']
data1 = pd.DataFrame(data= np.c_[iris['data'], iris['target']],
                     columns= iris['feature_names'] + ['target'])

from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
import pandas as pd

data = load_iris()
df = pd.DataFrame(data.data, columns=data.feature_names)
df.head()

This tutorial maybe of interest: http://www.neural.cz/dataset-exploration-boston-house-pricing.html

TOMDLt's solution is not generic enough for all the datasets in scikit-learn. For example it does not work for the boston housing dataset. I propose a different solution which is more universal. No need to use numpy as well.

from sklearn import datasets
import pandas as pd

boston_data = datasets.load_boston()
df_boston = pd.DataFrame(boston_data.data,columns=boston_data.feature_names)
df_boston['target'] = pd.Series(boston_data.target)
df_boston.head()

As a general function:

def sklearn_to_df(sklearn_dataset):
    df = pd.DataFrame(sklearn_dataset.data, columns=sklearn_dataset.feature_names)
    df['target'] = pd.Series(sklearn_dataset.target)
    return df

df_boston = sklearn_to_df(datasets.load_boston())

Took me 2 hours to figure this out

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris

iris = load_iris()
##iris.keys()


df= pd.DataFrame(data= np.c_[iris['data'], iris['target']],
                 columns= iris['feature_names'] + ['target'])

df['species'] = pd.Categorical.from_codes(iris.target, iris.target_names)

Get back the species for my pandas