[R-sig-teaching] Creating data

[hadley wickham]

> I'm currently teaching a graduate course in statistics for linguistics
> using R. I have used up most of the 'authentic' data I have been able
> to collect for homework and demonstrations. I can think of plenty more
> possible data sets, but I am finding the creation of them challenging,
> and my creations are often somewhat unlealistic (generally, too
> 'neat' and obvious).

Why don't you give us some parameters of the types of data you are
looking for and we can suggest possible sources of new data.  You can
see a few links I've collected at http://delicious.com/hadley/data.

If you want something really big, there's also the data expo
challenge: http://stat-computing.org/dataexpo/2009/

Regards,

Hadley

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