Imagine this, you take the family out to a Colorado Rockies game on a relaxing, Sunday afternoon in the middle of May. The game starts at 2:00PM locally, and the family arrives to the stadium just about 20 minutes before the first pitch. Now, wouldn’t it be nice to get back home in time before rush hour (5PM) and in time for dinner? Well, you can’t. Nowadays, a MLB game that finishes in less than three hours is considered a rarity. However, baseball games didn’t always used to be this way. Most recently in 2010, the average MLB game was…
For years, individuals have relied on numerous different mediums in order to obtain the weather forecast. From newspapers to smartphones, there are a plethora of different ways that individuals can check the weather. Have you ever wondered which medium is the most/least accurate? Or which of these mediums for weather forecasts are most popular? Well, the two data sets that I analyzed may help to answer those questions. The csv file that I will be analyzing came from a survey that was given to individuals in order to learn more about how people check weather. The dataset asks questions about…
About three years ago, I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Boulder, Colorado. I grew up in a place where purchasing/renting homes, land, and buildings was (and still is!) extremely expensive. In an article published by 24/7 Wall Street, the authors determined that San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area are reported to be the most expensive areas to live in the entire United States. So, when I moved to Boulder, I was thrilled to live in a place that had a cheaper, more affordable real estate market. I could not have been more misinformed.
The English Premier League is one of (if not the most) famous soccer league in the entire world. In this league, you will find the best players in the on the planet mixed with some of the most historic/iconic teams ever. Even though I am not a huge soccer fan, I have always followed the EPL on a season to season basis. For my Module 04 Assignment, I thought it would be interesting to analyze data from this soccer league over the last ten years. I happened to stumble upon a zip file on the “Datahub.io” site that contained game…
For my Module 3 assignment, I decided to retrieve data from the official Grammys website and do some analyzing on it. Obviously, the popularity and range of all types of music have changed over time. From Rock and Roll to modern-day Hip-Hop, each generation seems to have different tastes in music. With that being said, I thought it would be interesting to look into Grammy data and analyze popular music genres and artists, and see how the awards have changed over time. …
The game of Major League Baseball (MLB) has changed so much over the past 150 years. From attendance, night games, home runs, and strike outs, the game has changed in ways that many people could have never imagined. Being a former baseball player and die-hard San Francisco Giants fan, I thought it would be extremely enjoyable to analyze data from past Major League Baseball games. After spending a few initial days looking for a baseball data set to analyze, I came across a data set titled “MLB Game Logs 1871–2016” from the Data World website. The data set was extremely…
The data set that I analyzed was about how different groups of people check the weather. The csv file that I will be analyzing came from a survey that was given to individuals in order to learn more about how people learn about weather. The file was full of data points that could lead to answering the questions of how/why certain individuals check the weather before they start their day. The data includes a number of different points that describe each of the participants in one way or another. …
