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+
+import os, zipfile
+import tensorflow as tf
+
+
+os.mkdir('data')
+
+folder = './data'
+
+file = 'secoora.zip'
+
+url = "https://github.com/dbuscombe-usgs/mlmondays_data_objrecog/releases/download/0.1.0/"+file
+filename = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), file)
+print("Downloading %s ... " % (filename))
+tf.keras.utils.get_file(filename, url)
+print("Unzipping to %s ... " % (folder))
+with zipfile.ZipFile(file, "r") as z_fp:
+    z_fp.extractall("./"+folder)
+
+try:
+    os.remove(file)
+except:
+    pass