Descriptive statistics and visualization of data from the R datasets package with implications for clusterability
Naomi C. Brownstein, Andreas Adolfsson, Margareta Ackerman · Data in Brief · 2019
The manuscript describes and visualizes datasets from the datasets package in the R statistical software, focusing on descriptive statistics and visualizations that provide insights into the clusterability of these datasets. These publicly available datasets are contained in the R software system, and can be downloaded at https://www.r-project.org/ , with documentation provided at https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/datasets/html/00Index.html . Further information on clusterability is found in the companion to this article, To Cluster or Not to Cluster: An Analysis of Clusterability Methods ? ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.10.026 ). Brief descriptions and graphs of the variables contained in each dataset are provided in the form of means, extrema, quartiles, standard deviation and standard error. Two-dimensional plots for each pair of variables are provided. Original references to the data sets are included when available. Further, each dataset is reduced to a single dimension by each of two different methods: pairwise distances and principal component analysis. For the latter, only the first component is used. Histograms of the reduced data are included for every dataset using both methods.