BikeCommute: Bike Commute
Description
Commute times for two kinds of bicycle
Format
A dataset with 56 observations on the following 9 variables.
Bike
Type of material (Carbon
or Steel
)
Date
Date of the bike commute as a string
DMY
Date of the bike commute as a date object
Distance
Length of commute (in miles)
Time
Total commute time (hours:minutes:seconds)
Minutes
Time converted to minutes
AvgSpeed
Average speed during the ride (miles per hour)
TopSpeed
Maximum speed (miles per hour)
Seconds
Time converted to seconds
MonthStr
Month
MonthNum
Numeric value of month
Month
Month coded as one of 1Jan
,
2Feb
, 3Mar
, 4Apr
, 5May
,
6June
, or 7July
,
Source
Thanks to Dr. Groves for providing his data.Details
Data from a personal experiment to compare commuting time based on a
randomized selection between two bicycles made of different materials.
References
"Bicycle weight and commuting time: randomised trial,"
in British Medical Journal, BMJ 2010;341:c6801.