BikeCommute: Bike Commute

In Lock5withR: 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 as a string

• DMY Date of the bike commute as a date object

• 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

• MonthStr Month MonthNum Numeric value of month

• Month Month coded as one of 1Jan, 2Feb, 3Mar, 4Apr, 5May, 6June, or 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.

Lock5withR documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:43 p.m.