Data Analysis Project

Stats 270 Data Analysis Project Part 1 – Getting the Data
Obtain a data set of quantitative variables describing an item of interest to you. A good size data set to work with should contain at least 50 observations. The data set should contain one quantitative variable. Some suggestions are:
• Housing prices – choose a specific neighbourhood or area
• Vehicle prices or mileage – choose a specific class of car (e.g. mid-size, luxury, minivan, etc)
• Annual incomes of accountants or instructors… – choose incomes from the same profession
• Birth rates and death rates – try to localize this so the numbers aren’t too huge
• Prices for various food items – steak prices and milk prices at a variety of stores or cities
• Calories in a can of soup or sodium in the soup, or any food item of your choice
• Sports statistics

Some helpful sites you might try are:
• http://www.statcan.gc.ca/
• http://finance.yahoo.com/
• http://www.calgary.ca/portal/server.pt (city business, economic profile and statistics)
• http://www.mls.ca
• http://www.autotrader.com/

Enter the data set into Excel. Include a heading at the top of the data set that accurately describes the data and includes units.
There are several data sets in Aplia as well. If you prefer, you may choose data from one of these sets. Remember you only need 1 variable, some sets have multiple variables. Please save the list you want to use to a new spreadsheet.
Regardless of where you obtain your data, you must provide the link or data set reference so that I can verify it.