Opening the Dataset: Confession of a Dataholic

My name is Bruce Ratner, and I am a dataholic. I am also an artist and poet in the world of statistical data. I always await getting my hands on a new dataset to crack open and paint the untapped, unsoiled numbers into analytic scenes and swirling equations, among other data gatherings with pictograms. The purpose of this article is to provide the means for marking your dataset with important matter. The article is in the third edition of my book Statistical and Machine-Learning Data Mining: Techniques for Better Predictive Modeling, Analysis of Big Data.