diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8d54b80..834cf02 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,5 @@ www.openbiometrics.org
     $ cd openbr
     $ git submodule init
     $ git submodule update
-    $ cd data
-    $ ./downloadDatasets.sh
 
 [Build Instructions](http://openbiometrics.org/doxygen/latest/installation.html)
diff --git a/data/README.md b/data/README.md
index abffb51..e951354 100644
--- a/data/README.md
+++ b/data/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
 * [PCSO](PCSO/README.md)
 
 For both practical and legal reasons we don't include images in this repository.
-Open source datasets can be downloaded using `downloadDatasets.sh`.
+Open source datasets can be downloaded using `../scripts/downloadDatasets.sh`.
 Researchers should contact the respective owners of the other datasets in order to obtain a copy.
 The provided sigsets indicate how the images are expected to be arranged in directories, generally following the conventions established by the original authors.
diff --git a/openbr/openbr_export.cpp b/openbr/openbr_export.cpp
index b2ee8d6..3f3a9cc 100644
--- a/openbr/openbr_export.cpp
+++ b/openbr/openbr_export.cpp
@@ -270,8 +270,6 @@ $ br -help
  * $ cd openbr
  * $ git submodule init
  * $ git submodule update
- * $ cd data
- * $ ./downloadDatasets.sh
  * \endcode
  * -# Build OpenBR!
  * \code
@@ -362,8 +360,6 @@ $ br -help
  * $ cd openbr
  * $ git submodule init
  * $ git submodule update
- * $ cd data
- * $ ./downloadDatasets.sh
  * \endcode
  * -# Build OpenBR!
  * \code
@@ -431,8 +427,6 @@ $ br -help
  * $ cd openbr
  * $ git submodule init
  * $ git submodule update
- * $ cd data
- * $ ./downloadDatasets.sh
  * \endcode
  * -# Build OpenBR!
  * \code
diff --git a/data/downloadDatasets.sh b/scripts/downloadDatasets.sh
index dd508b5..4f74b10 100755
--- a/data/downloadDatasets.sh
+++ b/scripts/downloadDatasets.sh
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 if [ ! -f downloadDatasets.sh ]; then
-  echo "Run this script from the data folder!"
+  echo "Run this script from the scripts folder!"
   exit
 fi
 
 # BioID
-if [ ! -d BioID/img ]; then
+if [ ! -d ../data/BioID/img ]; then
   echo "Downloading BioID..."
   curl -OL ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/facedb/BioID-FaceDatabase-V1.2.zip
   unzip BioID-FaceDatabase-V1.2.zip
-  mkdir BioID/img
-  mv *.pgm BioID/img
+  mkdir ../data/BioID/img
+  mv *.pgm ../data/BioID/img
   rm *.eye description.txt BioID-FaceDatabase-V1.2.zip
 fi
 
@@ -19,17 +19,17 @@ fi
 if [ ! -d ../data/LFW/img ]; then
   echo "Downloading LFW..."
   curl -OL http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/lfw.tgz
-  tar -xf lfw.tgz -C LFW
-  mv LFW/lfw LFW/img
+  tar -xf lfw.tgz
+  mv lfw ../data/LFW/img
   rm lfw.tgz
 fi
 
 # MEDS
-if [ ! -d MEDS/img ]; then
+if [ ! -d ../data/MEDS/img ]; then
   echo "Downloading MEDS..."
   curl -OL http://nigos.nist.gov:8080/nist/sd/32/NIST_SD32_MEDS-II_face.zip
   unzip NIST_SD32_MEDS-II_face.zip
-  mkdir MEDS/img
-  mv data/*/*.jpg MEDS/img
+  mkdir ../data/MEDS/img
+  mv data/*/*.jpg ../data/MEDS/img
   rm -r data NIST_SD32_MEDS-II_face.zip
 fi
diff --git a/scripts/evalFaceRecognition-MEDS.sh b/scripts/evalFaceRecognition-MEDS.sh
index 544aed7..e5e07ea 100755
--- a/scripts/evalFaceRecognition-MEDS.sh
+++ b/scripts/evalFaceRecognition-MEDS.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ if [ ! -f evalFaceRecognition-MEDS.sh ]; then
   exit
 fi
 
+# Get the data
+./downloadDatasets.sh
+
 if [ ! -e Algorithm_Dataset ]; then
   mkdir Algorithm_Dataset
 fi
diff --git a/scripts/helloWorld.sh b/scripts/helloWorld.sh
index f2a7af8..0373875 100755
--- a/scripts/helloWorld.sh
+++ b/scripts/helloWorld.sh
@@ -10,25 +10,8 @@ if ! hash br 2>/dev/null; then
   exit
 fi
 
-cd ../data
-
-# Download, unzip, and reorganize the BioID database
-if [ ! -d BioID/img ]; then
-  curl -OL ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/facedb/BioID-FaceDatabase-V1.2.zip
-  unzip BioID-FaceDatabase-V1.2.zip
-  mkdir BioID/img
-  mv *.pgm BioID/img
-  rm *.eye description.txt BioID-FaceDatabase-V1.2.zip
-fi
-
-# Download, unzip, and reorganize the MEDS-II database
-if [ ! -d MEDS/img ]; then
-  curl -OL http://nigos.nist.gov:8080/nist/sd/32/NIST_SD32_MEDS-II_face.zip
-  unzip NIST_SD32_MEDS-II_face.zip
-  mkdir MEDS/img
-  mv data/*/*.jpg MEDS/img
-  rm -r data NIST_SD32_MEDS-II_face.zip
-fi
+# Get the data
+./downloadDatasets.sh
 
 # Train the Eigenfaces algorithm
 br -algorithm 'Open+Cvt(Gray)+Cascade(FrontalFace)+ASEFEyes+Affine(128,128,0.33,0.45)+CvtFloat+PCA(0.95):Dist(L2)' -train BioID/img Eigenfaces
diff --git a/scripts/trainFaceRecognition-MEDS.sh b/scripts/trainFaceRecognition-MEDS.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 6f9bf60..0000000
--- a/scripts/trainFaceRecognition-MEDS.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-if [ ! -f trainFaceRecognition-MEDS.sh ]; then
-  echo "Run this script from the scripts folder!"
-  exit
-fi
-
-rm -f ../share/openbr/models/algorithms/FaceRecognitionHoG
-
-br -algorithm FaceRecognitionHoG -path ../data/MEDS/img -train ../data/MEDS/sigset/MEDS_frontal_all.xml ../share/openbr/models/algorithms/FaceRecognitionHoG
diff --git a/scripts/trainImageRetrieval-LFW.sh b/scripts/trainImageRetrieval-LFW.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f0f11e5..0000000
--- a/scripts/trainImageRetrieval-LFW.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-if [ ! -f trainImageRetrieval-LFW.sh ]; then
-  echo "Run this script from the scripts folder!"
-  exit
-fi
-
-if [ ! -e Algorithm_Dataset ]; then
-  mkdir Algorithm_Dataset
-fi
-
-if [ ! -e LFW.mask ]; then
-  br -makeMask ~/lfw2[step=10] . LFW.mask
-fi
-
-rm -f ../share/openbr/models/algorithms/ImageRetrieval
-
-br -algorithm ImageRetrieval -train ~/lfw2[step=10] ../share/openbr/models/algorithms/ImageRetrieval
-br -algorithm ImageRetrieval -compare ~/lfw2[step=10] . ImageRetrieval_LFW.mtx -eval ImageRetrieval_LFW.mtx LFW.mask Algorithm_Dataset/ImageRetrieval_LFW.csv
-br -plot Algorithm_Dataset/*_LFW.csv LFW
-
-#rm -f ../share/openbr/models/algorithms/ImageRetrieval