diff --git a/data/scripts/get_coco.sh b/data/scripts/get_coco.sh
index 7f86377..157a0b0 100755
--- a/data/scripts/get_coco.sh
+++ b/data/scripts/get_coco.sh
@@ -8,14 +8,17 @@
 #     /yolov5
 
 # Download/unzip labels
-echo 'Downloading COCO 2017 labels ...'
 d='../' # unzip directory
-f='coco2017labels.zip' && curl -L https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/releases/download/v1.0/$f -o $f
-unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f
+url=https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/releases/download/v1.0/
+f='coco2017labels.zip'                                                                 # 68 MB
+echo 'Downloading' $url$f ' ...' && curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f # download, unzip, remove
 
 # Download/unzip images
-echo 'Downloading COCO 2017 images ...'
 d='../coco/images' # unzip directory
-f='train2017.zip' && curl http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f # 19G, 118k images
-f='val2017.zip' && curl http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f   # 1G, 5k images
-# f='test2017.zip' && curl http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f  # 7G,  41k images
+url=http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/
+f1='train2017.zip' # 19G, 118k images
+f2='val2017.zip'   # 1G, 5k images
+f3='test2017.zip'  # 7G, 41k images (optional)
+for f in $f1 $f2; do
+  echo 'Downloading' $url$f ' ...' && curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f # download, unzip, remove
+done
diff --git a/data/scripts/get_voc.sh b/data/scripts/get_voc.sh
index 5658864..5e488c8 100644
--- a/data/scripts/get_voc.sh
+++ b/data/scripts/get_voc.sh
@@ -8,79 +8,23 @@
 #     /yolov5
 
 start=$(date +%s)
+mkdir -p ../tmp
+cd ../tmp/
 
-# handle optional download dir
-if [ -z "$1" ]; then
-  # navigate to ~/tmp
-  echo "navigating to ../tmp/ ..."
-  mkdir -p ../tmp
-  cd ../tmp/
-else
-  # check if is valid directory
-  if [ ! -d $1 ]; then
-    echo $1 "is not a valid directory"
-    exit 0
-  fi
-  echo "navigating to" $1 "..."
-  cd $1
-fi
-
-echo "Downloading VOC2007 trainval ..."
-# Download data
-curl -LO http://pjreddie.com/media/files/VOCtrainval_06-Nov-2007.tar
-echo "Downloading VOC2007 test data ..."
-curl -LO http://pjreddie.com/media/files/VOCtest_06-Nov-2007.tar
-echo "Done downloading."
-
-# Extract data
-echo "Extracting trainval ..."
-tar -xf VOCtrainval_06-Nov-2007.tar
-echo "Extracting test ..."
-tar -xf VOCtest_06-Nov-2007.tar
-echo "removing tars ..."
-rm VOCtrainval_06-Nov-2007.tar
-rm VOCtest_06-Nov-2007.tar
+# Download/unzip images and labels
+d='.' # unzip directory
+url=https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/releases/download/v1.0/
+f1=VOCtrainval_06-Nov-2007.zip # 446MB, 5012 images
+f2=VOCtest_06-Nov-2007.zip     # 438MB, 4953 images
+f3=VOCtrainval_11-May-2012.zip # 1.95GB, 17126 images
+for f in $f1 $f2 $f3; do
+  echo 'Downloading' $url$f ' ...' && curl -L $url$f -o $f && unzip -q $f -d $d && rm $f # download, unzip, remove
+done
 
 end=$(date +%s)
 runtime=$((end - start))
-
 echo "Completed in" $runtime "seconds"
 
-start=$(date +%s)
-
-# handle optional download dir
-if [ -z "$1" ]; then
-  # navigate to ~/tmp
-  echo "navigating to ../tmp/ ..."
-  mkdir -p ../tmp
-  cd ../tmp/
-else
-  # check if is valid directory
-  if [ ! -d $1 ]; then
-    echo $1 "is not a valid directory"
-    exit 0
-  fi
-  echo "navigating to" $1 "..."
-  cd $1
-fi
-
-echo "Downloading VOC2012 trainval ..."
-# Download data
-curl -LO http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC/voc2012/VOCtrainval_11-May-2012.tar
-echo "Done downloading."
-
-# Extract data
-echo "Extracting trainval ..."
-tar -xf VOCtrainval_11-May-2012.tar
-echo "removing tar ..."
-rm VOCtrainval_11-May-2012.tar
-
-end=$(date +%s)
-runtime=$((end - start))
-
-echo "Completed in" $runtime "seconds"
-
-cd ../tmp
 echo "Spliting dataset..."
 python3 - "$@" <<END
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET