flags dataset

flags dataset

Survey on university faculty perceptions and practices of using Wikipedia as a teaching resource. data

data(flags)

Format

A data.frame with 194 rows on 29 variables.

Details

The dataset contains details on flags in terms of quantitative and categorical variables, bars, stripes, colours, red, green, blue, gold, white, black, orange, mainhue, circles, crosses, saltires, quarters, sunstars, crescent, triangle, icon, animate, text, topleft, botright. The dataset also contains additional variables, landmass, zone, area, population, language and religion, that can be used for interpreting the clusters once they are found.

Source

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml

References

Dua, D., Graff, C.: UCI Machine Learning Repository. University of California, School of Information and Computer Science, Irvine, CA (2019)

Giordani, P., Ferraro, M.B., Martella, F.: An Introduction to Clustering with R. Springer, Singapore (2020)

Author(s)

Paolo Giordani, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Francesca Martella

Examples

data(flags)
X <- flags[,7:29]