Soil Data from Visualizing Data Book, 22 Tabular Datasets

22 tabular datasets originally published in the book 'Visualizing Data' by Hobart Press. The data was used in a benchmark for regression tasks on mixed categorical and numerical features. Original source details and specific column information are not provided in the metadata.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking regression algorithms based on mixed categorical and numerical features.
• Analyzing soil properties and related environmental variables based on the book's domain.
• Testing data transformation and preprocessing pipelines for tabular benchmarks.

Strengths

• Contains 22 distinct datasets from a published source.
• Used in a recognized tabular data benchmark for regression tasks.
• Released under a public domain (us-pd) license.

Limitations

• Row count, column names, and sample data are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Original source and collection methodology details are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Hobart Press (book 'Visualizing Data')

Collection Method

Data dump created by data.dump() from the S language, as described.