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scikit-learn Good First Issues for Python

Python issues that involve scikit-learn: the project is tagged with it, or the issue itself is about it.

scikit-learn

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84
Nobody on it yet
7.8k
Average difficulty
3.9/5

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  • Average annotated difficulty: 3.9/5 across 7,887 issues.
  • 10% of 7,887 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Sep 27, 2026.

About scikit-learn

scikit-learn is a Python library for classical machine learning, first released in 2007. It offers classification, regression, clustering and preprocessing behind one consistent estimator API.

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