January 2018
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This dataset is available on the UCI Machine Learning Repository at:
https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/pima+indians+diabetes.
From the main website, we can learn a few things about this publicly available dataset. We have nine columns and 768 instances (rows). The dataset is primarily used for predicting the onset of diabetes within five years in females of Pima Indian heritage over the age of 21 given medical details about their bodies.
The dataset is meant to correspond with a binary (2-class) classification machine learning problem. Namely, the answer to the question, will this person develop diabetes within five years? The column names are provided as follows (in order):
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