userR2013 data analysis contest: data exploration

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Fellgernon Bit - rstats in R bloggers | 0 Comments

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Description

The useR2013 conference is organizing a data analysis contest, check the rules here.

They have a package called useR2013DAC with two data sets: one from La Liga and the other one from the Formula 1. Once you download and install the package (available here), you can quickly explore the data using the following R commands:

Data exploration

<span class="c1">## Load the package</span>
library<span class="p">(</span>useR2013DAC<span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c1">## Explore laliga data</span>
data<span class="p">(</span>laliga<span class="p">)</span>
head<span class="p">(</span>laliga<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1">##    Season Week               HomeTeam                    AwayTeam</span>
<span class="c1">## 1 2008/09    1   Athletic Club Bilbao     Union Deportiva Almeria</span>
<span class="c1">## 2 2008/09    1        Atlético Madrid                   Málaga CF</span>
<span class="c1">## 3 2008/09    1          Betis Sevilla Real Club Recreativo Huelva</span>
<span class="c1">## 4 2008/09    1             CA Osasuna               Villarreal CF</span>
<span class="c1">## 5 2008/09    1            CD Numancia                FC Barcelona</span>
<span class="c1">## 6 2008/09    1 Deportivo de La Coruña              Real Madrid CF</span>
<span class="c1">##   HomeGoals AwayGoals</span>
<span class="c1">## 1         1         3</span>
<span class="c1">## 2         4         0</span>
<span class="c1">## 3         0         1</span>
<span class="c1">## 4         1         1</span>
<span class="c1">## 5         1         0</span>
<span class="c1">## 6         2         1</span>
summary<span class="p">(</span>laliga<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1">##     Season               Week        HomeTeam           AwayTeam        </span>
<span class="c1">##  Length:1900        Min.   : 1.0   Length:1900        Length:1900       </span>
<span class="c1">##  Class :character   1st Qu.:10.0   Class :character   Class :character  </span>
<span class="c1">##  Mode  :character   Median :19.5   Mode  :character   Mode  :character  </span>
<span class="c1">##                     Mean   :19.5                                        </span>
<span class="c1">##                     3rd Qu.:29.0                                        </span>
<span class="c1">##                     Max.   :38.0                                        </span>
<span class="c1">##                                                                         </span>
<span class="c1">##    HomeGoals      AwayGoals   </span>
<span class="c1">##  Min.   :0.00   Min.   :0.00  </span>
<span class="c1">##  1st Qu.:1.00   1st Qu.:0.00  </span>
<span class="c1">##  Median :1.00   Median :1.00  </span>
<span class="c1">##  Mean   :1.65   Mean   :1.14  </span>
<span class="c1">##  3rd Qu.:2.00   3rd Qu.:2.00  </span>
<span class="c1">##  Max.   :8.00   Max.   :8.00  </span>
<span class="c1">##  NA's   :50     NA's   :50</span>
lapply<span class="p">(</span>laliga<span class="p">,</span> class<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1">## $Season</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "character"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $Week</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "integer"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $HomeTeam</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "character"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $AwayTeam</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "character"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $HomeGoals</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "integer"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $AwayGoals</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "integer"</span>
<span class="c1">## Explore formula1 data</span>
data<span class="p">(</span>formula1<span class="p">)</span>
head<span class="p">(</span>formula1<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1">##   Pos No             Driver             Team Laps        Time Grid Pts</span>
<span class="c1">## 1   1  8    Fernando Alonso          Ferrari   49 1:39:20.396    3  25</span>
<span class="c1">## 2   2  7       Felipe Massa          Ferrari   49  +16.0 secs    2  18</span>
<span class="c1">## 3   3  2     Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes   49  +23.1 secs    4  15</span>
<span class="c1">## 4   4  5   Sebastian Vettel      RBR-Renault   49  +38.7 secs    1  12</span>
<span class="c1">## 5   5  4       Nico Rosberg      Mercedes GP   49  +40.2 secs    5  10</span>
<span class="c1">## 6   6  3 Michael Schumacher      Mercedes GP   49  +44.1 secs    7   8</span>
<span class="c1">##                                         Race Season</span>
<span class="c1">## 1 2010 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX   2010</span>
<span class="c1">## 2 2010 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX   2010</span>
<span class="c1">## 3 2010 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX   2010</span>
<span class="c1">## 4 2010 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX   2010</span>
<span class="c1">## 5 2010 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX   2010</span>
<span class="c1">## 6 2010 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX   2010</span>
summary<span class="p">(</span>formula1<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1">##       Pos            No                     Driver    </span>
<span class="c1">##  Ret    :254   1      :  58   Felipe Massa     :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  1      : 58   10     :  58   Fernando Alonso  :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  10     : 58   11     :  58   Heikki Kovalainen:  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  11     : 58   12     :  58   Jenson Button    :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  12     : 58   14     :  58   Kamui Kobayashi  :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  13     : 58   15     :  58   Lewis Hamilton   :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  (Other):848   (Other):1044   (Other)          :1044  </span>
<span class="c1">##                    Team          Laps             Time          Grid     </span>
<span class="c1">##  Ferrari             :116   55     :125   +1 Lap    :268   1      :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  Force India-Mercedes:116   56     :121   +2 Laps   :102   10     :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  HRT-Cosworth        :116   53     : 92   Accident  : 93   11     :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  McLaren-Mercedes    :116   57     : 80   +3 Laps   : 41   12     :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  STR-Ferrari         :116   70     : 75   Hydraulics: 26   13     :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  Lotus-Renault       : 78   52     : 69   Gearbox   : 24   14     :  58  </span>
<span class="c1">##  (Other)             :734   (Other):830   (Other)   :838   (Other):1044  </span>
<span class="c1">##       Pts          Race               Season    </span>
<span class="c1">##         :812   Length:1392        Min.   :2010  </span>
<span class="c1">##  1      : 58   Class :character   1st Qu.:2010  </span>
<span class="c1">##  10     : 58   Mode  :character   Median :2011  </span>
<span class="c1">##  12     : 58                      Mean   :2011  </span>
<span class="c1">##  15     : 58                      3rd Qu.:2012  </span>
<span class="c1">##  18     : 58                      Max.   :2012  </span>
<span class="c1">##  (Other):290</span>
lapply<span class="p">(</span>formula1<span class="p">,</span> class<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1">## $Pos</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "factor"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $No</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "factor"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $Driver</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "factor"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $Team</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "factor"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $Laps</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "factor"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $Time</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "factor"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $Grid</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "factor"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $Pts</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "factor"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $Race</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "character"</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## $Season</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] "numeric"</span>

I don’t see a specific question that they want you to answer with this data, but if you find one related to data analysis or visualization then join the competition!

Note that you must be attending the conference in order to be eligible to compete.

Reproducibility

sessionInfo<span class="p">()</span>
<span class="c1">## R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)</span>
<span class="c1">## Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## locale:</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8</span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## attached base packages:</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     </span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## other attached packages:</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] useR2013DAC_0.1-1 knitr_1.2        </span>
<span class="c1">## </span>
<span class="c1">## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):</span>
<span class="c1">## [1] digest_0.6.3   evaluate_0.4.3 formatR_0.7    stringr_0.6.2 </span>
<span class="c1">## [5] tools_3.0.0</span>

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