Blood Transfusion Service Center Data for Donor Classification, 2008

A 2008 dataset curated by the TabArena team for evaluating predictive models on independent and identically distributed tabular data. The intended task is classification, and the data is sourced from a study on RFM models. Feature names have been made more descriptive by the curators.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking classification algorithms based on the dataset's stated purpose for IID tabular data evaluation.
• Predicting donor behavior based on the dataset's focus on blood transfusion service operations.
• Analyzing data quality challenges based on the noted anomaly of duplicate records with conflicting labels.

Strengths

• Released under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license.
• Feature names have been curated to be more descriptive.
• Has a cited academic reference providing original context.

Limitations

• Row count, column definitions, and sample data are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Contains a significant anomaly with 29% duplicate records and several duplicates with different target values.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

https://doi.org/10.24432/C5GS39; Yeh, I-Cheng, King-Jang Yang, and Tao-Ming Ting. 'Knowledge discovery on RFM model using Bernoulli sequence.' Expert Systems with applications 36.3 (2009): 5866-5871.

Collection Method

Curated from an original data source for the TabArena Tabular ML IID Study.

Time Range

2008

Freshness

Dataset year is 2008; last update date is unknown.

Geography

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