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Plants Data Set
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Abstract: Data has been extracted from the USDA plants database. It contains all plants (species and genera) in the database and the states of USA and Canada where they occur.

Data Set Characteristics:  

Multivariate

Number of Instances:

22632

Area:

Life

Attribute Characteristics:

Categorical

Number of Attributes:

70

Date Donated

2008-12-31

Associated Tasks:

Clustering

Missing Values?

Yes

Number of Web Hits:

211394

Source:

Original source:
USDA plants database: http://plants.usda.gov/index.html

Extracted and encoded by W. Hämäläinen, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. whamalai '@' cs.helsinki.fi


Data Set Information:

The data is in the transactional form. It contains the Latin names (species or genus) and state abbreviations.


Attribute Information:

Each row contains a Latin name (species or genus) and a list of state abbreviations.


Relevant Papers:

Hämäläinen, W. and Nykänen, M.: Efficient discovery of statistically significant association rules. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), pp. 203-212. IEEE Computer Society 2008.



Citation Request:

Even if the data is processed, it is good to give a reference to the original source:
USDA, NRCS. 2008. The PLANTS Database ([Web Link], 31 December 2008). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

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