This data set supports the technical paper and supporting information documents accepted to Steel Research International (https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.201800370). The technical paper presents transformation potential calculations for two different martensitic transformation paths and compares these to experimentally measured textures in a SAE 201 stainless steel. The data set provides: scripts used to calculate martensitic transformations, analyze data, and create figures; and pole figure data files used to calculate orientation distribution functions (ODF) included in the paper. The authors hope that providing this data set will facilitate reuse and expansion, as well as making research more reproducible.