Large Data Set Facts

Question 1

What months do we have info for?

Answer 1

May to October

Question 2

Places Nto S uk

Answer 2

Leuchars
Leeming
Heathrow
Hurn
Cambourne

Question 3

Which places in uk are coastal?

Answer 3

Camborne and Leuchars

Question 4

Further north temp what happens, rainfall and hours of sunshine

Answer 4

Temp decreases
Rainfall increases
Hours of sunshine increases

Question 5

Rainfall has many

Answer 5

0s and tr

Question 6

Daily mean visibility rounded to:

Answer 6

Nearest 100

Question 7

Tr

Answer 7

Trace of water rainfall between 0 and 0.05 replaced with 0

Question 8

N/A

Answer 8

Don’t use, it remove it.

Question 9

Wind gust direction

Answer 9

Multiples of 10 only

Question 10

Wind gust

Answer 10

Compass directions (can’t have a mean)

Question 11

International countries

Answer 11

Jackson ville
Beijing
Perth

Question 12

Perth

Answer 12

Flipped seasons

Question 13

Beijing

Answer 13

Hotter wetter summer
Colder winter

Question 14

Jackson ville florida

Answer 14

Hot summers
Hurricanes in October but mean windspeed still low in data.

Question 15

International measurements

Answer 15

Daily mean temp
Daily total rainfall
Daily mean pressure
Daily mean windspeed
Beaufort windspeed

Question 16

International Daily mean windspeed rounding

Answer 16

Rounded to 1dp

Question 17

Which is further north? Cambourne or Hurn?

Answer 17

Hurn

Question 18

Highest location in UK above sea level?

Answer 18

Cambourne

Question 19

How are snow or hail measured

Answer 19

Melted first then measured as rain

Question 20

Why can’t we test the hypothesis, “it’s sunnier in the UK then in perth”

Answer 20

There is no sunshine data for overseas

Question 21

Why is it difficult to compare the temperature in Heathrow and temp in Beijing?

Answer 21

Heathrow: highest daily temp
Beijing : daily average temp

Question 22

Where is the highest temp in summer and why?

Answer 22

Jackson ville and then Beijing because they are closest to the equator

Question 23

Why would you include an anomaly?

Answer 23

It is a piece of data and all pieces of data should be considered

Question 24

Why would an anomaly be excluded?

Answer 24

It could be a mistake
It is an extreme value would influence analysis

Question 25

Cambourne and Hurn and leuchars will be more windier because:

Answer 25

They are on the coast

Question 26

Categorical data:

Answer 26

Wind cardinal direction and beufort conversion

Question 27

Dependent variable

Answer 27

Response variable (y axes)