From Sports to Real Estate: Real-World Data Facts of Life

• Activity Number: 290
• Type: Invited
• Date/Time: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
• Author(s): John Emerson*
• Companies: Yale University
• Keywords: programming ; analysis ; data cleaning ; tidy ; linear models

Abstract

We'll take a tour through a few real world data problems that pose challenges in both programming and analysis. Although these examples are useful in the classroom, the lessons should be broadly useful to a wide range of problems encountered in the daily life of Statistical Programmers and Analysts.