Give Your Statistician Colleague Iris Bulbs for Their House Warming!

• Activity Number: 314 - They Never Die: a Historical Overview of the Many Uses of Famous Historic Data Sets
• Type: Invited
• Date/Time: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Statistical Graphics
• Author(s): Dianne Cook*
• Companies: Monash University
• Keywords: data science; visualization; machine learning; data mining

Abstract

The iris data is a classic in Statistics, and has blossomed into a model data set in computer science, and data science. It can be found as the example data in many R packages, and many journal articles. Where did this data come from, why has it persisted in the field, and adopted by many other fields. What makes a data set gain immortality for scientists?