---
language:
- en
tags:
- abalone
- tabular_regression
- regression
pretty_name: Abalone
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
task_categories:  # Full list at https://github.com/huggingface/hub-docs/blob/main/js/src/lib/interfaces/Types.ts
- tabular-regression
configs:
- abalone
---
# Abalone
The [Abalone dataset](https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Abalone) from the [UCI ML repository](https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets).
Predict the age of the given abalone.

# Configurations and tasks
| **Configuration** | **Task**                  | **Description**                                               |
|-------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
| abalone            | Regression               | Predict the age of the abalone.                               |

# Usage
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("mstz/abalone")["train"]
```

# Features
Target feature in bold.
|**Feature**            |**Type**       |
|-----------------------|---------------|
| sex                   | `[string]`    |
| length                | `[float64]`   |
| diameter              | `[float64]`   |
| height                | `[float64]`   |
| whole_weight          | `[float64]`   |
| shucked_weight        | `[float64]`   |
| viscera_weight        | `[float64]`   |
| shell_weight          | `[float64]`   |
| **number_of_rings**   | `[int8]`      |