16 -- Wasting Time -- Ryan Burton

[rryanburton]

Wasting Time

Description

Use the U.S. Department of Labor's data on Americans' time use for research and analysis.

Tasks

• [x] Blank slate
  • [x] Create a GitHub repo called atus-analysis
  • [x] Copy all the files from this repo into it
  • [x] Set up your requirements/virtual environment
  • [x] Download the 2014 ATUS data using the download_data.sh script
• [x] Normal mode
  • [x] Gain an understanding of the data that is available
  • [x] Identify areas you want to compare/focus on
  • [x] Load relevant data into a notebook
  • [x] Analyze it, look for correlations, comparisons, etc.
  • [x] Present your findings in a polished notebook file (you may want to have a scratch notebook for exploring, and a final notebook for presentation)

    Objectives

    Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should understand:

• How to use public data for analysis
• How to translate data from CSVs to relational databases
• How to publish your own data analysis as a notebook

  Performance Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should be able to:

• Use pandas to parse and analyze data
• Use matplotlib to chart data
• Clean data

  Details

  Deliverables

• A Git repo called atus-analysis containing at least:
  • README.md file explaining how to run your project
  • a requirements.txt file
  • an IPython notebook with your analysis
  • a suite of tests for your project

    Requirements

• Passing unit tests
• No PEP8 or Pyflakes warnings or errors

[rryanburton]

https://github.com/rryanburton/atus-analysis

@powder-river @jamesmallen

[powder-river]

@rryanburton good work. I appreciate your concern of those employed not spending more time with their pets.