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+# Secondary data
+Bookbased mushroom data set, describing physical characteristics, binary classification in poisonous or edible. 
+Data Set Description Files are reported for two data sets: Primary and Secondary.
+The primary data set encodes the textbook mushroom entries, while the secondary data set is a pilot data, result of simulation.
+The secondary data may be used to achieve a binary classification using the Random Forests classifier (Accuracy and F2 score of 1).
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+## Source
+
+Created by Dennis Wagner, Dominik Heider, Georges Hattab
+Based on Patrick Hardin. Mushrooms & Toadstools. Collins, 2012
+Inspired by Jeff Schlimmer. Mushroom Data Set. 1987. URL: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Mushroom 
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+## License
+
+All source code and pertaining data available on this site is open-source, freely available for modification and remixing under the Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0.
+
+## Data Set Information
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+The primary data set contains descriptions of 173 mushroom species as entries. It can be used to simulate hypothetical mushrooms.
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+The secondary data set is a product of such simulation and contains 61,069 hypothetical mushrooms. It can be used for binary classification.