race_info: Table of Information about Marathons

In byuidatascience/data4marathons: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

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

Usage

race_info

Format

A data frame with columns:

year

The variable is integer. The year of the marathon

marathon

The variable is character. The name of the marathon

country

The variable is character. The country where the marathon was held

finishers

The variable is integer. The number of finishers at the marathon

mean_time

The variable is numeric. The average finish time in minutes.

Source

https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/george.wu/research/marathon/marathon_names.htm

Examples

## Not run: 
race_info

## End(Not run)

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