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.