penguins_simple {mlr3data}

Simplified Palmer Penguins Data Set

Description

Classification data to predict the species of penguins from the palmerpenguins package. A better alternative to the iris data set.

Pre-processing

• The unit of measurement have been removed from the column names. Lengths are given in millimeters (mm), weight in gram (g).

• Observations with missing values have been removed.

• Factor variables are one-hot encoded.

Source

palmerpenguins

References

Gorman KB, Williams TD, Fraser WR (2014). “Ecological Sexual Dimorphism and Environmental Variability within a Community of Antarctic Penguins (Genus Pygoscelis).” PLoS ONE, 9(3), e90081. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090081.

https://github.com/allisonhorst/palmerpenguins

Examples

data("penguins_simple", package = "mlr3data")
str(penguins_simple)