[R] diamonds data set from ggplot2

[Ebert,Timothy Aaron]

Thank you for sharing the paper.
Tim

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To: Sigbert Klinke <sigbert using wiwi.hu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: [R] diamonds data set from ggplot2

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On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 4:09 AM Sigbert Klinke <sigbert using wiwi.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> is there any information about the source of this data set?
>
> 1.) I read the question of Marina Doucerain in 2012 about the time and
> Hadley Wickhams answer "I believe it was 2008."
>
> 2.) In kaggle someone said "It's a Tiffany & Co's snapshot pricelist
> from 2017."
>
> So, where the data set stems from? Which year?

Digging back into my old files, it looks like I created the data in Feb 2007 by scraping http://www.diamondse.info/ with a ruby script.
I've attached the paper I wrote about for an (unsuccessful) submission to the Journal of Statistical Education.

Hadley

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