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From: ntm1169@dsac.dla.mil (Mott Given)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Fischer's iris data set
Message-ID: <2975@dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 20 Jun 91 12:37:21 GMT
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From article <22223@brahms.udel.edu>, by brady@brahms.udel.edu (Joseph Brady):
> In article <91169.180706T1W@psuvm.psu.edu> T1W@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>Does anyone have available--online?--Fisher's iris data set?  Or does
>>anyone know where we might be able to acquire it?

   It is available online.  I have the information on how to FTP it below,
   which I have abridged as it was a very long article:
   
From: bradley@cs.utexas.edu (Bradley L. Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.edu,comp.ai
Subject: Re: Public Data (machine learning)
Keywords: machine learning
Date: 19 Jun 90 20:05:07 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas

In article <25021@unix.cis.pitt.edu> jcst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John J Cierniakoski) writes:
>How can I get a copy, either machine readable or paper, of
>"Quinlan's Mushroom Data"?

UCI maintains an extensive set of publically available data sets suitable
for machine learning implementations, including the "mushroom" data.  They
are also interested in new data sets with documentation.

...
===============================================================================
              This is the UCI Repository Of Machine Learning Databases
                                7 February 1990
            ics.uci.edu: /usr2/spool/ftp/pub/machine-learning-databases
                    Site Librarian: David W. Aha (aha@ics.uci.edu)
            47 databases (5884K plus 1 offline database of unknown size)
===============================================================================

Included in this directory are data sets that have been or can be used to
evaluate learning algorithms. Each data file (*.data) consists of
individual records described in terms of attribute-value pairs.  See the
corresponding *.names file for voluminous documentation.  (Some files
_generate_ databases; they do not have *.data files.)

The contents of this repository can be remotely copied to other network
sites via ftp.  Both the userid and password are "anonymous".  ...

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