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Red Wine Quality^[1]

Read this text file which describes the variables and how the data was collected.

This tidy data set contains 1,599 red wines with 11 variables on the chemical properties of the wine. At least 3 wine experts rated the quality of each wine, providing a rating between 0 (very bad) and 10 (very excellent).

Which chemical properties influence the quality of red wines?

10-20 hours

White Wine Quality2

Read this text file which describes the variables and how the data was collected.

This tidy data set contains 4,898 white wines with 11 variables on quantifying the chemical properties of each wine. At least 3 wine experts rated the quality of each wine, providing a rating between 0 (very bad) and 10 (very excellent).

Which chemical properties influence the quality of white wines?

10-20 hours

Financial Contributions to Presidential Campaigns by State

(2/6/18 Note: This site has changed and data is currently inaccessible. We’re working to update our access.)

Select an election year from the radio buttons and press the “Export Contributor Data” button to get downloadable datasets. Choose ONE state and explore financial contributions made to Presidential candidates in a given election year.

Ask your own questions about this data set. You may want to add variables to this data set such as the gender or political party of the candidate.

15-30 hours

Loan Data from Prosper

Last updated 03/11/2014

This variable dictionary explains the variables in the data set.

This data set contains 113,937 loans with 81 variables on each loan, including loan amount, borrower rate (or interest rate), current loan status, borrower income, borrower employment status, borrower credit history, and the latest payment information.

Ask your own questions about this data set. There are MANY variables in this data set and you are not expected to explore all of them. You should explore between 10-15 variables in your analysis.

15-30 hours

Find your own data set!

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30+ hours