cereal: Cereal data set

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Cereal data set

Description

This dataset contains nutrition information for 77 breakfast cereals and includes 16 variables. the "rating" column is our target as a rating of the cereals (Possibly from Consumer Reports?).

Usage

 data(cereal) 

Format

the cereal dataset, as a data frame, contains 77 rows (breakfast cereals) and 16 columns (variables/features). the 16 variables are:

• name: Name of cereal.

• manuf: Manufacturer of cereal, coded into seven categories: "A" for American Home Food Products, "G" for General Mills, "K" for Kelloggs, "N" for Nabisco, "P" for Post, "Q" for Quaker Oats, and "R" for Ralston Purina.

• type: cold or hot.

• calories: calories per serving.

• protein: grams of protein.

• fat: grams of fat.

• sodium: milligrams of sodium.

• fiber: grams of dietary fiber.

• carbo: grams of complex carbohydrates.

• sugars: grams of sugars.

• potass: milligrams of potassium.

• vitamins: vitamins and minerals - 0, 25, or 100, indicating the typical percentage of FDA recommended.

• shelf: display shelf (1, 2, or 3, counting from the floor).

• weight: weight in ounces of one serving.

• cups: number of cups in one serving.

• rating: a rating of the cereals (Possibly from Consumer Reports?).

Details

For more information related to the dataset see
https://www.openml.org/search?type=data&status=any&id=1095&sort=runs

Source

This dataset is originally from
https://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/Cereals.html

References

Reza Mohammadi (2025). Data Science Foundations and Machine Learning with R: From Data to Decisions. https://book-data-science-r.netlify.app.

See Also

bank, churn_mlc, churn, churn_tel, adult, risk, advertising, marketing, drug, house, house_price, red_wines, white_wines, insurance, caravan, fertilizer, corona

Examples

data(cereal)
str(cereal)

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