The CPU data set was analysed by Sean Kelly.
This dataset contains 209 instances of computer CPU stats. Prior to processing,
instance-unique nominal values had to be removed. The remaining attributes
were then ranked by relevence to the chips’ manufacturers. All 9 available ranking
methods were used on the data. For the final museum, individual manufacturers
of more than 8 chips were grouped by room, and a floor of rooms was made for
each ranking method. Unfortunately, each floor was so large that no more than 3
of the 9 floors of the museum can be rendered at once, and on low-end machines
the screenshot utility used for taking web page pictures has trouble working when
even 3 floors are being rendered. To solve this problem, the build script only constructs
a single floor, but takes a parameter to determine ranking method. Viewing
of the full dataset shows how cpu power tends to vary by manufacturer. While
each attribute apart from manufacturer is numeric, all attributes but overall performance
tend to be standardized values, predominantly powers of 2 x1000. Given
the nature of computers, such values are to be expected, although they cause overlap
in many displays.
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