About the data
This chapter will make use of data about the passengers on the Titanic, which famously sank on her maiden voyage in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. The survival rates of passengers were strongly affected by a variety of factors, including class and sex.
The dataset is derived from a painstakingly compiled dataset produced by Michael A. Findlay. For more information about how the data was derived, including links to original sources, consult the book's wiki at http://wiki.clojuredatascience.com.
Note
The example code for this chapter is available from Packt Publishing's website or from https://github.com/clojuredatascience/ch4-classification.
The data is small enough to have been included together with the source code in the data directory.