BikeCommute: Bike Commute

In Lock5Data: Datasets for "Statistics: UnLocking the Power of Data"

Description

Commute times for two kinds of bicycle

Format

A dataset with 56 observations on the following 9 variables.

Bike	Type of material Carbon or Steel
Date	Date of the bike commute
Distance	Length of commute (in miles)
Time	Total commute time (hours:minutes:seconds)
Minutes	Time converted to minutes
AvgSpeed	Average speed during the ride (miles per hour)
TopSpeed	Maximum speed (miles per hour)
Seconds	Time converted to seconds
Month	Categories: 1Jan 2Feb 3Mar 4Apr 5May 6June 7July

Details

Data from a personal experiment to compare commuting time based on a randomized selection between two bicycles made of different materials.

Source

Thanks to Dr. Groves for providing his data.

References

Bicycle weight and commuting time: randomised trial, in British Medical Journal, BMJ 2010;341:c6801.

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