Data and Stories Assignments
Each of these datasets is able to tell a story.
Your assignment is to use statistical analysis to tell that story to our class.


Category: Correlation

1) The 1970 Draft Lottery

2) Alcohol and Tobacco

3) When Do Babies Start To Crawl?

4) Brainsize and Intelligence

5) Smoking and Cancer

6) Age and Height

Category: Smoothing

7) US Temperatures

Category: Simple Regression

8) Chromatography

9) Home Runs Story

10) Hubble's Constant

Category: Time Series

11) Batmobile

12) Birthrates

13) Class Disruption (and other interventions)

14) Graduation Rates

15) Health Care Costs

16) Hignway Deaths

17) Oil Production

18) Olympic Gold Medals

19) Unemployment

Category: Multiple Regression

20) Acorn Size Oak Distribution

21) Agricultural Economics

22) Air Pollution

23) Beef Council Checkoff Data

24) Egyptian Skull Development

25) Enrollment Forecast

26) Food Taste Test

27) Forecasting Appliance Sales

28) Forecasting Retail Sales

29) Healthy Breakfast

30) Ice Cream Consumption

31) Massachussetts Lunatics

32) Mercury Contamination

33) Mexico City Effect

34) Nuclear Power

35) OECD Economic Development

36) Polishing Times

37) Quarterback and Team Salaries

38) Albuquerque Taxes and Home Prices

39) Transformations

40) Television Add Yields

41) US Auto Mileage

42) US Temperatures

43) Wages and Hours

44) Wild Horses

Category: Dummy Variables

45) Factors in Country Inflation

46) Parking Meter Theft

47) State Spending

48) Teacher Pay by State

49) Voting for the President

50) Q-Back and Salaries

Category: Lurking Variable

51) Fuel Efficient Buick Station Wagon

52) US Crime Story

Category: Multicollinearity

53) Cheese Test

Category: Nonlinear Regression

54) Gompertz's Law