P. Cortez and A. Morais. A Data Mining Approach to Predict Forest Fires using Meteorological Data. In J. Neves, M. F. Santos and J. Machado Eds., New Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 13th EPIA 2007 - Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, December, Guimaraes, Portugal, pp. 512-523, 2007. APPIA, ISBN-13 978-989-95618-0-9.
The data can be used to test regression (difficult task), feature selection or outlier detection methods.
Dataset: forestfires.csv
Explanation of the data: forestfires-names.txt
Reference (in pdf): [Cortez and Morais, 2007]