R help - Jun 2009 - Dataset suggestion sought

Dear Group:

In revising my book Regression Modeling Strategies for a second edition, 
I am seeking a dataset for exemplifying multiple regression using least 
squares.  Ideally the dataset would have 5-40 variables and 40-10000 
independent observations, and would generate significant interest for a 
wide variety of readers.  For example, the topic could be political 
science, society, human suffering, sports, psychology, economics, 
entertainment, history, etc.  The dataset needs to be publicly available.

I would appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks,
Frank Harrell
Vanderbilt University
Nashville TN USA

> In revising my book Regression Modeling Strategies for a second edition, I
> am seeking a dataset for exemplifying multiple regression using least
> squares. ?Ideally the dataset would have 5-40 variables and 40-10000
> independent observations, and would generate significant interest for a
wide
> variety of readers. ?For example, the topic could be political science,
> society, human suffering, sports, psychology, economics, entertainment,
> history, etc. ?The dataset needs to be publicly available.
I have a few datasets that might be of interest:

* Movie rankings from imdb, https://github.com/hadley/data-movies/tree

* Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds (included in ggplot2)

* Baby name popularity for the top 1000 names over the whole USA
1880-2008, and top 100 names per state 1960 to 2008,
https://github.com/hadley/data-baby-names/tree

 * EPA fuel economy measurements for all cars tested in the US,
https://github.com/hadley/data-fuel-economy/tree

 * Many datasets about the US housing crisis (work in progress),
https://github.com/hadley/data-housing-crisis

 * 500,000 house sales in the Bay Area, https://github.com/hadley/sfhousing/tree

If any of those sound of interest, I can provide more details.

Hadley

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