Abstract

The goal of this assignment has 3 key components. The first is to research and get the relevant data from a website by using web scraping techniques. The second is to clean, parse and organize the scraped data into a single dataframe. The final step is to perform an exploratory and statistical analysis on the dataset to help answer a question. The dataset and website in question is The Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run and 5K Run-Walk race results for the female runners in the 10-mile races. The website http://www.cherryblossom.org contains race results from 1999 – 2019, however we will be focusing on the results from 1999 to 2013. Using this specific race and time frame, we are focusing on reviewing whether the age distribution changed among the female race contestants over the years. Using a series of EDA, linear regression, change point analysis, and ANOVA(Analysis of Variance) we found that there was some significant movement in age over the span of the years.

Thanks: Samuel Arellano, Dhyan Shah, Chandler Vaughn