diff --git a/datasets/README.md b/datasets/README.md
index 5ff0e18a7..586895022 100644
--- a/datasets/README.md
+++ b/datasets/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ make sure the data directory is mounted to a directory on your host with
 -v flag. If you are following instructions from the README you will have used 
 the `-v $HOME/data:/data` flag in the `docker run` command. This will mount
 the `$HOME/data` directory to the `/data` directory in the container. 
-In this case set --data_dir to  `\data`. 
+In this case set --data_dir to  `/data`. 
 ```bash
 DATA_DIR='/data'
 ```