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I'm familiar with some famous datasets and the stories behind them, but I'd love to know more.

for instance:

  1. The Iris dataset - a botanician said that it is possible to differentiate between species of Iris flowers by the measurements of the petals, and then Fisher, a statistician, described a linear discriminant model for making these classifications
  2. The Titanic dataset - describing who survived and who didnt in the titanic disaster.

There are others, of course.

so:

  • What famous data sets are you aware of?
  • What was the background story?
  • What made them famous?
  • As a teaching tool, what are they commonly used for showing?
Aviad Rozenhek
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  • https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/7/locating-freely-available-data-samples, https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/5937/tiny-real-datasets-for-giving-examples-in-class, https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/21486/what-are-good-datasets-to-illustrate-particular-aspects-of-statistical-analysis, https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/16130/datasets-for-data-visualization-examples-teaching-and-research – kjetil b halvorsen Nov 17 '23 at 04:31

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