Exploratory Data Analysis

Read before class on Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Readings

Questions to reflect on

  • Early Careers 2022 Student Survey contains data from the anonymous online survey of Early Career students. How would we describe the shape, centre, and spread of the following variables:

    • height, a respondent’s height in cm
    • exercise_hours, number of hours exercising last week
    • online_hours, number of hours spent online last week
    • handedness, an indicator from -1 (exclusively left handed) to 0 (ambidextrous) to +1 (exclusively right handed)
    • haircut_spend, amount of money spent on last haircut, expressed in USD$.

Session Files

  • Slides for today’s session are available on Canvas.
  • You can download all session files (data, code, etc.) by pulling from course Github repo.