diff --git a/utils_code/dataset_collection.py b/utils_code/dataset_collection.py
index 65b849cbb6abc3988fc5ef1bc92bff7890bbcec3..057e898a9dfe362e282ad7773efe017468109e06 100644
--- a/utils_code/dataset_collection.py
+++ b/utils_code/dataset_collection.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class Dataset():
     def example_holzmuller(self, ds_name):
         """Data set from David Holzmüller paper of batch active learning."""
 
-        path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'data/'))
+        path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'data/data/'))
 
         X = np.load(path + ds_name + '/X.npy')
         y = np.load(path + ds_name + '/y.npy')
diff --git a/utils_data/custom_paths.py b/utils_data/custom_paths.py
index 587e94b1a53569b3c2b742f5118e7522fea1618c..295b548e4ea8b836db3e7f59b1f2926a0c432342 100644
--- a/utils_data/custom_paths.py
+++ b/utils_data/custom_paths.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+import os
+
 # This file allows to configure where to save data, results, plots etc.
 class CustomPaths:
     # path where downloaded data sets will be saved
-    data_path = 'data'
+    data_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'data/'))
+
     # path where benchmark results will be saved
     results_path = 'results'
     # path where plots and tables will be saved