flags
OpenML dataset with id 285
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Full work available at URL: https://api.openml.org/data/v1/download/49810/flags.arff
Upload date: 14 August 2014
Dataset Characteristics
Number of classes: 8
Number of features: 29 (numeric: 2, symbolic: 27 and in total binary: 13 )
Number of instances: 194
Number of instances with missing values: 0
Number of missing values: 0
Author: Richard S. Forsyth Source: Unknown - 5/15/1990 Please cite:
ARFF version of UCI dataset 'flags'.
Creators: Collected primarily from the "Collins Gem Guide to Flags": Collins Publishers (1986). Donor: Richard S. Forsyth. Date 5/15/1990
This data file contains details of various nations and their flags. With this data you can try things like predicting the religion of a country from its size and the colours in its flag. 10 attributes are numeric-valued. The remainder are either Boolean- or nominal-valued.
Number of Instances: 194. Number of attributes: 30 (overall). Missing values: none
Attribute Information:
1. name Name of the country concerned
2. landmass 1=N.America, 2=S.America, 3=Europe, 4=Africa, 4=Asia, 6=Oceania
3. zone Geographic quadrant, based on Greenwich and the Equator 1=NE, 2=SE, 3=SW, 4=NW
4. area in thousands of square km
5. population in round millions
6. language 1=English, 2=Spanish, 3=French, 4=German, 5=Slavic, 6=Other Indo-European, 7=Chinese, 8=Arabic, 9=Japanese/Turkish/Finnish/Magyar, 10=Others
7. religion 0=Catholic, 1=Other Christian, 2=Muslim, 3=Buddhist, 4=Hindu, 5=Ethnic, 6=Marxist, 7=Others
8. bars Number of vertical bars in the flag
9. stripes Number of horizontal stripes in the flag
10. colours Number of different colours in the flag
11. red 0 if red absent, 1 if red present in the flag
12. green same for green
13. blue same for blue
14. gold same for gold (also yellow)
15. white same for white
16. black same for black
17. orange same for orange (also brown)
18. mainhue predominant colour in the flag (tie-breaks decided by taking the topmost hue, if that fails then the most central hue, and if that fails the leftmost hue)
19. circles Number of circles in the flag
20. crosses Number of (upright) crosses
21. saltires Number of diagonal crosses
22. quarters Number of quartered sections
23. sunstars Number of sun or star symbols
24. crescent 1 if a crescent moon symbol present, else 0
25. triangle 1 if any triangles present, 0 otherwise
26. icon 1 if an inanimate image present (e.g., a boat), otherwise 0
27. animate 1 if an animate image (e.g., an eagle, a tree, a human hand) present, 0 otherwise
28. text 1 if any letters or writing on the flag (e.g., a motto or slogan), 0 otherwise
29. topleft colour in the top-left corner (moving right to decide tie-breaks)
30. botright Colour in the bottom-left corner (moving left to decide
tie-breaks)
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