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Table of Information about Marathons
The data is called race_info.
Description
An interesting data set to see the effects of goals on what should be a unimodal distrubtion of finish times. The NYT had a good article - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/what-good-marathons-and-bad-investments-have-in-common.html?rref=upshot&_r=1
The source of this data is < https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/marathon_names.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description |
|:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------|
|year |integer |The year of the marathon |
|marathon |character |The name of the marathon |
|country |character |The country where the marathon was held |
|finishers |integer |The number of finishers at the marathon |
|mean_time |numeric |The average finish time in minutes. |
A resampled set of runners from all marathons with more 50 runners.
The data is called marathon_sample.
Description
Each marathon will have 100 runners (50 male, 50 female) per year. So any marathon with less than 50 runners in the group will have multiple resampled runners. This data set has over 500k runners. The original data had close to 10 million runners and a few more columns. The NYT had a good article - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/what-good-marathons-and-bad-investments-have-in-common.html?rref=upshot&_r=1
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description |
|:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------|
|age |numeric |The age of the runner |
|gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) |
|chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner |
|year |integer |The year of the marathon |
|marathon |character |The name of the marathon |
|country |character |The country where the marathon was held |
|finishers |integer |The number of finishers at the marathon |
A random sample of 50% of males and females for each year of runners for all years of the New York City marathon where gender is recorded.
The data is called marathon_nyc.
Description
This data set has just over 200k runners. The NYT had a good article - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/what-good-marathons-and-bad-investments-have-in-common.html?rref=upshot&_r=1. The NYC marathon website - https://www.nyrr.org/tcsnycmarathon
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description |
|:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------|
|age |numeric |The age of the runner |
|gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) |
|chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner |
|year |numeric |The year of the marathon |
|marathon |character |The name of the marathon |
|country |character |The country where the marathon was held |
|finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The full set of runners for all races during 2010.
The data is called marathon_2010.
Description
This data set has 800k runners. The NYT had a good article - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/what-good-marathons-and-bad-investments-have-in-common.html?rref=upshot&_r=1.
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description |
|:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------|
|age |numeric |The age of the runner |
|gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) |
|chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner |
|year |numeric |The year of the marathon |
|marathon |character |The name of the marathon |
|country |character |The country where the marathon was held |
|finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The 50% sample of male/female runners for all years of the Berlin marathon that recorded gender.
The data is called marathon_berlin.
Description
This data set has ~200k observations. Marathon website - https://www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com/en/
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description |
|:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------|
|age |numeric |The age of the runner |
|gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) |
|chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner |
|year |numeric |The year of the marathon |
|marathon |character |The name of the marathon |
|country |character |The country where the marathon was held |
|finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The full set of runners for the Big Sur marathon.
The data is called marathon_big_sur.
Description
This data set has ~40k observations. Marathon website - https://www.bigsurmarathon.org/
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description |
|:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------|
|age |numeric |The age of the runner |
|gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) |
|chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner |
|year |numeric |The year of the marathon |
|marathon |character |The name of the marathon |
|country |character |The country where the marathon was held |
|finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The full set of runners for the Jerusalem marathon.
The data is called marathon_jerusalem.
Description
This data set has ~2.5k observations. Marathon website - https://jerusalem-marathon.com/en/home-page/
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description |
|:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------|
|age |numeric |The age of the runner |
|gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) |
|chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner |
|year |numeric |The year of the marathon |
|marathon |character |The name of the marathon |
|country |character |The country where the marathon was held |
|finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
All of the runners for marathons with lat and long locations
The data is called marathon_location.
Description
This data set has ~150k observations.
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description |
|:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------|
|age |numeric |The age of the runner |
|gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) |
|chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner |
|year |numeric |The year of the marathon |
|marathon |character |The name of the marathon |
|country |character |The country where the marathon was held |
|finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The data is called race_location.
Description
This data set has ~2k observations.
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm and https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description |
|:-------------|:---------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|marathon |character |The name of the marathon that matches all other files |
|marathon_name |character |A cleaned name of the marathon |
|state_id |character |The two letter ID for each US state |
|city |character |The name of the city where the race is held |
|finishers |integer |The number of finishers at the marathon |
|mean_time |numeric |The average finish time in minutes. |
|lat |numeric |The lattitude of the city as listed at https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities |
|lng |numeric |The longitude of the city as listed at https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities |
|elevation_m |numeric |The elevation in meters above sea level as estimated from the elevatr R package. |
|date |Date |The approximate date of the marathon. The year is correct but the month and day changes every year and we have marked it the same. |
|month |numeric |Approximate month of the marathon |
|day |numeric |Approximate day of the month of the marathon. |
|year |integer |The year of the marathon |
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Table of Information about Marathons
The data is called race_info.
Description
An interesting data set to see the effects of goals on what should be a unimodal distrubtion of finish times. The NYT had a good article - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/what-good-marathons-and-bad-investments-have-in-common.html?rref=upshot&_r=1
The source of this data is < https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/marathon_names.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description | |:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------| |year |integer |The year of the marathon | |marathon |character |The name of the marathon | |country |character |The country where the marathon was held | |finishers |integer |The number of finishers at the marathon | |mean_time |numeric |The average finish time in minutes. |
A resampled set of runners from all marathons with more 50 runners.
The data is called marathon_sample.
Description
Each marathon will have 100 runners (50 male, 50 female) per year. So any marathon with less than 50 runners in the group will have multiple resampled runners. This data set has over 500k runners. The original data had close to 10 million runners and a few more columns. The NYT had a good article - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/what-good-marathons-and-bad-investments-have-in-common.html?rref=upshot&_r=1
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description | |:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------| |age |numeric |The age of the runner | |gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) | |chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner | |year |integer |The year of the marathon | |marathon |character |The name of the marathon | |country |character |The country where the marathon was held | |finishers |integer |The number of finishers at the marathon |
A random sample of 50% of males and females for each year of runners for all years of the New York City marathon where gender is recorded.
The data is called marathon_nyc.
Description
This data set has just over 200k runners. The NYT had a good article - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/what-good-marathons-and-bad-investments-have-in-common.html?rref=upshot&_r=1. The NYC marathon website - https://www.nyrr.org/tcsnycmarathon
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description | |:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------| |age |numeric |The age of the runner | |gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) | |chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner | |year |numeric |The year of the marathon | |marathon |character |The name of the marathon | |country |character |The country where the marathon was held | |finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The full set of runners for all races during 2010.
The data is called marathon_2010.
Description
This data set has 800k runners. The NYT had a good article - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/what-good-marathons-and-bad-investments-have-in-common.html?rref=upshot&_r=1.
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description | |:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------| |age |numeric |The age of the runner | |gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) | |chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner | |year |numeric |The year of the marathon | |marathon |character |The name of the marathon | |country |character |The country where the marathon was held | |finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The 50% sample of male/female runners for all years of the Berlin marathon that recorded gender.
The data is called marathon_berlin.
Description
This data set has ~200k observations. Marathon website - https://www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com/en/
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description | |:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------| |age |numeric |The age of the runner | |gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) | |chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner | |year |numeric |The year of the marathon | |marathon |character |The name of the marathon | |country |character |The country where the marathon was held | |finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The full set of runners for the Big Sur marathon.
The data is called marathon_big_sur.
Description
This data set has ~40k observations. Marathon website - https://www.bigsurmarathon.org/
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description | |:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------| |age |numeric |The age of the runner | |gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) | |chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner | |year |numeric |The year of the marathon | |marathon |character |The name of the marathon | |country |character |The country where the marathon was held | |finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The full set of runners for the Jerusalem marathon.
The data is called marathon_jerusalem.
Description
This data set has ~2.5k observations. Marathon website - https://jerusalem-marathon.com/en/home-page/
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description | |:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------| |age |numeric |The age of the runner | |gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) | |chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner | |year |numeric |The year of the marathon | |marathon |character |The name of the marathon | |country |character |The country where the marathon was held | |finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
All of the runners for marathons with lat and long locations
The data is called marathon_location.
Description
This data set has ~150k observations.
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description | |:---------|:---------|:---------------------------------------| |age |numeric |The age of the runner | |gender |character |The gender of the runner (M/F) | |chiptime |numeric |The time in minutes for the runner | |year |numeric |The year of the marathon | |marathon |character |The name of the marathon | |country |character |The country where the marathon was held | |finishers |numeric |The number of finishers at the marathon |
The data is called race_location.
Description
This data set has ~2k observations.
The source of this data is < http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/data.htm and https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities >
Data format
A data frame with columns:
|variable |class |description | |:-------------|:---------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |marathon |character |The name of the marathon that matches all other files | |marathon_name |character |A cleaned name of the marathon | |state_id |character |The two letter ID for each US state | |city |character |The name of the city where the race is held | |finishers |integer |The number of finishers at the marathon | |mean_time |numeric |The average finish time in minutes. | |lat |numeric |The lattitude of the city as listed at https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities | |lng |numeric |The longitude of the city as listed at https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities | |elevation_m |numeric |The elevation in meters above sea level as estimated from the elevatr R package. | |date |Date |The approximate date of the marathon. The year is correct but the month and day changes every year and we have marked it the same. | |month |numeric |Approximate month of the marathon | |day |numeric |Approximate day of the month of the marathon. | |year |integer |The year of the marathon |
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