Tutorial Data Sets

Data files used in various tutorials.

Some of the tutorials on this site use the following data sets1.

Netflix Movies and TV Shows

A list of movies and shows on Netflix.

Cereal Nutrition

Nutritional information for major US cereal brands.

Original Source: Kaggle - 80 Cereals, Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 (Attribution-ShareAlike)

Titanic Passenger List

Information on Titanic Passengers.

Original Source: Kaggle - Titanic - Machine Learning from Disaster, Creative Commons 0 (Public Domain)

US Honey Production

A data set combining US honey production from 1998-2017 with the USGS Pesticide National Synthesis Project.

Congressional Voting Record

Voting information for the 1984 US Congress.

HR Data

Modified version of Dr. Carla Patalano's Synthetic Human Resources Data Set.

Banking Data

Anonymized banking data. Moro S, Cortez P, Rita P. A data-driven approach to predict the success of bank telemarketing. Decision Support Systems. 2014;62:22-31. doi:10.1016/j.dss.2014.03.001.

Spotify Data

Spotify song information.

Iris Data

Iris Flower Dataset

Housing Data

House Sales in King County, USA

Auto MPG Data

MPG data for several car makes and models. Quinlan,R. (1993). Combining Instance-Based and Model-Based Learning. Proceedings on the Tenth International Conference of Machine Learning, 236-243, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Morgan Kaufmann.

Biking Data

Capital Bike Share Data. Fanaee-T, Hadi, and Gama, Joao, 'Event labeling combining ensemble detectors and background knowledge'. Progress in Artificial Intelligence (2013): pp. 1-15, Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Jane Austen Texts

Text from Jane Austen's published writing.

2019 Census

U.S. Census Bureau (2019). State Population by Characteristics: 2010-2019.


  1. While both "dataset" and "data set" are now found in various dictionaries, the APA Style Guide has standardized on writing "data set" as two words. ↩

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