Appendix D
Sources and Citations
Data Sources
Chapter 2. A Day in Your Life as a Data Miner
Property ownership data
The property ownership datasets used in this chapter were provided by Matt Schumwinger of Big Lake Data (see his profile in Chapter 2) for this case study. These datasets are not publicly available.
Similar data is available for download from the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin at http://city.milwaukee.gov/DownloadTabularData3496.htm.
Chapter 12. Getting Familiar with Your Data
Property ownership data: see Chapter 2.
Cigarette data
This data was collected for research described in “Determination of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide yields in the mainstream smoke of selected international cigarettes,” Tobacco Control 2004;13:45-51 doi:10.1136/tc.2003.003673, A M Calafat, G M Polzin, J Saylor, P Richter, D L Ashley, C H Watson. (Full text here: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/13/1/45.full.)
The data is available through the journal Tobacco Control at http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/suppl/2004/02/27/13.1.45.DC1/13145table_1.pdf.
Chapter 13. Dealing in Graphic Detail
Property ownership data: see Chapter 2.
Auto mileage data
This data was collected for research described in Quinlan, R. (1993). Combining Instance-Based and Model-Based Learning. In Proceedings on the Tenth International Conference of Machine Learning, 236-243, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Morgan Kaufmann.
This data was obtained from the UCI Machine Learning Repository.
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