Task A: Getting the Data- Course weight Obtain a data set of quantitative variables describing an item of interest to you. Your data set must contain at least 50 data entries. The data measurement level must be interval or ratio.

Some suggestions are:

Housing price or square footage - choose a specific neighborhood or area

Vehicle prices or mileage - choose a specific class of car (e.g. mid-size, luxury, minivan, etc)

Annual incomes of business administrators... - choose incomes from the same profession

Prices for various food items - steak prices and fruit prices at a variety of stores or cities

Calories in a can of soup or sodium in your favorite meal, different country size or population... Some helpful sites you might try are:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/; http://www.google.com;

http://finance.yahoo.com/

http://www.calgary.ca/portal/server.pt (city business, economic profile and statistics)

http://www.mls.ca

https://www.roberthalf.ca (very helpful in employment statistics) Must enter the data set into Excel. Must include a heading at the top of the data set that accurately describes the data and includes units. Everything must be on ONE spreadsheet! Remember you only need 1 variable (enter all numbers in 1 column only), some sets have multiple variablesnot good! Regardless of where you obtain your data, you must provide the link (real linkwhen the mouse is approaching, it will turn to be a "hand" sign) so that I can verify. Fail to do so will make you lose all marks in Task A.