Scotch Whiskies Data

Pierre Legendre
F.-J. Lapointe
May 1996
Département de sciences biologiques
Université de Montréal
Dear lover of Scotch whiskies and numerical data analysis, Here are the Scotch whisky data (109 distilleries) used in the following paper: Lapointe, F.-J. & P. Legendre. 1994. A classification of pure malt Scotch whiskies. Applied Statistics 43: 237-257. There are 5 data sets: color, nose, body, palate, and finish. The binary (0-1) descriptors are in the same order as on p. 239 of the paper. In any case, they are all assembled (with identifiers) in an Excel data base, also included. We also send you the list of geographic coordinates of the distilleries, given as decimal degrees: longitude WEST, followed by latitude NORTH. In Scotland, one degree north is about 1.87 times as long as one degree west. To be complete, We are also including a matrix of geographic distances among distilleries, already computed and written out as an ASCII file. There are two whiskies in the classification from the Springbank distillery. One pertains to the Islay group, the other to the Western group. Please let us know of the analysis you have performed, especially if you intend publishing them.

Documents available for distribution include:

Macintosh files
- body(109x8) -- Body variable (109x8)
- color(109x14) -- Color variable (109x14)
- Dist geo./Scotch -- Geographic distance between distilleries (109x109)
- Distillery coordinates
- finish(109x19) -- Finish variable (109x19)
- nose(109x12) -- Nose variable (109x12)
- palate(109x15) -- Palate variable (109x15)
- ReadMe-Scotch Data -- This file
- Regions (109x3) 1 col. -- Regions variable, coded 1-2-3 (109x1)
- Scotch (109x68) -- All the variables (109x68)
- Scotch/XL3.0 -- Excel file of all the variables, including headers
DOS files
- BODY.TXT -- Body variable (109x8)
- COLOR.TXT -- Color variable (109x14)
- DIST-GEO.TXT -- Geographic distance between distilleries (109x109)
- DISTCOOR.TXT -- Distillery coordinates
- FINISH.TXT -- Finish variable (109x19)
- NOSSE.TXT -- Nose variable (109x12)
- PALATE.TXT -- Palate variable (109x15)
- README.TXT -- This file
- REGIONS.TXT -- Regions variable, coded 1-2-3 (109x1)
- SCOTCH.TXT -- All the variables (109x68)
- SCOTCH.XLS -- Excel file (Mac version 3.0) of all the variables, including headers

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