Find a Realworld Quadratic Dataset

[flannery-denny]

• 3 columns: an identifier and 2 quantitative variables
• Preferably on a topic of interest to students (projectiles, interaction effect)
• Preferably not about guns

[flannery-denny]

Massachusetts specific topics that might have interesting data:

• shellfish permits (I have a call in to Story Reed 6176261524 in the state office)
• Cape cod is named for abundance of cod that the state economy used to revolve around - data ought to be plentiful on cod fish population decline and attempts to restore https://sustainablefisheries-uw.org/fishery-feature/atlantic-cod-part1/
• noaa has been putting observers and data collectors on boats for decades to make decisions about season length and number of permits issued for the following species. Data seems to be managed by these research teams.
• sailing / wind - the bible sailors refer to when planning trips is ocean passages for the world - has the data been compiled in some sort of digital form?

Other topics not specific to MA

• frog jumping competition smithsonian article data and scientific article
• possibly worth reaching out to https://www.datakind.org/datacorps re: whether they can share datasets from past projects?
• elevation profiles of hilly landscapes
• projectiles
• Yellowstone National Park mule deer population (there was a big story about how reintroducing wolves has changed the population... thinking it might be on a curve, but I can't actually view this data)

[flannery-denny]

Exponential Growth Datasets

• NYTimes Covid math exercise with link to dataset
• Water hyacinth invade lake victoria
• Feral Swine populations - here's a report on the damage they cause

[retabak]

Article (referenced above) is below:

2019_Klaver_NothernYellowstone.pdf

[schanzer]

The covid dataset has wonderful exponential behavior over time, so we're good there. I still couldn't find any quadratic data in those links, so for now I've gone and used a contrived dataset about fuel efficiency at different speeds.

Good enough for now, but we should find better data before the fall release.

[flannery-denny]

@schanzer In brainstorming about data tables without time as a variable, I stumbled across these curves for evaporation loss during sprinkler irrigation... a big issue with big ag. water evaporation rate vs temperature

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