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.

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.