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Specifically, you should explain all the columns, including:

- Is that the person's height in inches?

- What does the asterisk in certain column-names indicate?

- Why do the pets, platinum_albums, weekly_workouts, number_of_siblings and pokemon_collected values seem to fall in the range of 7 - 8?

Also, this dataset is far too small. There is a single male-male relationship and that's not going to provide any significant data if we're looking at genders at all.

I would also argue that it's not the best set of metrics to use to determine whether people will become friends. Age and facebook_friends_count might give you some hints, but I seriously doubt that shoe size has as big an impact on the potential for friendship as, say, common interests, shared culture, income class, or other socioeconomic factors.



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