Appendix B — Datasets
Every dataset used in this textbook is listed below with a one-line description, its source package, and the chapters where it appears. Every dataset is also available as a CSV in this book’s datasets/ folder for use with Jamovi or any other tool.
B.1 From the openintro R package
These datasets ship with the openintro R package. Install with install.packages("openintro") and access via openintro::name or data(name) after library(openintro). Each name below links to the package’s documentation page.
| Dataset | Description | Where used |
|---|---|---|
antibiotics |
Antibiotic vs. symptomatic treatment for acute sinusitis | Ch 3 |
avandia |
Cardiovascular problems in patients on Avandia vs. other diabetes drug | Ch 7 |
bac |
Blood-alcohol content vs. beers consumed | Ch 20, 21 |
babies_crawl |
Average crawling age vs. birth-month temperature | Ch 19, 21 |
bdims |
Body measurements (girths, diameters, sex) of 507 physically active adults | Ch 13, 19, 20 |
biontech_adolescents |
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial in 12–15-year-olds | Ch 1 |
births14 |
1000 births in North Carolina, 2014 (birth weight, weeks, mom’s habits) | Ch 13, 14, 20 |
china |
Newborn health outcomes vs. rural/urban location in China | Ch 17 |
cia_factbook |
259 country-level indicators (life expectancy, GDP, births) from the CIA | Ch 2, 4 |
coast_starlight |
Distances and travel times between stops on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight | Ch 19, 20 |
corr_match |
Scatterplots with known correlations for the match-r-to-plot exercise | Ch 19 |
county_2019 |
2019 US Census county-level statistics | Ch 20 |
county_complete |
Full US county socioeconomic dataset (many years, many variables) | Ch 2, 4 |
daycare_fines |
Late-pickup counts at 10 daycare centers before/during/after a fine | Ch 1 |
epa2021 |
2021 EPA vehicle fuel economy | Ch 14 |
exam_grades |
Course grades and exam scores in a college statistics course | Ch 19 |
friday |
Traffic and admissions counts on Friday the 6th vs. the 13th | Ch 14 |
heart_transplant |
Stanford heart-transplant study — survival by treatment | Ch 3, 7, 12 |
hsb2 |
High School and Beyond survey subsample (reading, writing, math scores) | Ch 14 |
immigration |
Public opinion on immigration policy by age group | Ch 3 |
lizard_habitat |
Lizard sun/partial/shade preference by habitat | Ch 16 |
lizard_run |
Sprint speed of lizards under two temperature conditions | Ch 14 |
loan50 |
50 personal loans (income, rate, term, purpose) from Lending Club | Ch 4, 5 |
mammals |
Body/brain weight and other traits for 62 mammal species | Ch 5 |
mcu_films |
Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga films (runtimes, gross) | Ch 1 |
migraine |
Acupuncture vs. control for migraine pain relief | Ch 1 |
nyc_marathon |
NYC Marathon winning times by year and gender | Ch 5 |
oscars |
Best Actor and Best Actress Oscar winner ages | Ch 5 |
pm25_2022_durham |
Daily PM2.5 air-quality readings, Durham NC 2022 | Ch 4 |
possum |
Body measurements of 104 mountain brushtail possums | Ch 19, 20, 21 |
seattlepets |
Registered pets in Seattle (species, names, breed) | Ch 1 |
sinusitis |
Antibiotic vs. symptomatic sinusitis treatment (paired randomized trial) | Ch 1 |
smoking |
Smoking status, demographics for 1,691 UK residents | Ch 1 |
starbucks |
Nutrition information for Starbucks menu items | Ch 21 |
urban_owner |
Homeownership rates by state in urban vs. rural counties | Ch 21 |
us_temperature |
US city temperature paired sample (January vs. July) | Ch 14 |
yawn |
MythBusters’ contagious-yawning experiment | Ch 12 |
B.2 From other R packages
| Dataset | Package | Description | Where used |
|---|---|---|---|
run17 |
cherryblossom |
2017 Cherry Blossom race times and runner demographics | Ch 1 |
usairports |
airports |
US airport locations and characteristics | Ch 1 |
penguins |
palmerpenguins |
Palmer Archipelago penguins (species, bill/flipper/mass) | Ch 1 |
ukbabynames |
ukbabynames |
UK baby name popularity by year and nation | Ch 1 |
un_votes |
unvotes |
UN General Assembly vote records | Ch 1 |
Install with install.packages("packagename").
B.3 UWL-local datasets
These CSVs are hosted alongside the book and referenced in projects and labs.
| Dataset | Description |
|---|---|
ai_tool_use.csv |
UWL student survey: AI-tool use by age group (small, categorical — good for two-way tables and inference for two proportions) |
class_survey.csv |
UWL student survey: year, housing, study hours, sleep hours, commute (mixed quantitative + categorical — good for a full EDA project) |
flying_etiquette.csv |
FiveThirtyEight survey on in-flight etiquette (many categorical variables — rich for chi-square practice) |
B.4 Exercise datasets bundled with this book
Four CSVs live in chapters/data/ rather than in an R package, because the exercises that use them build their figures when the book is rendered. All four are redistributed unchanged from Introduction to Modern Statistics, which is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 — the same license as this book. The original data sources are listed so you can go back to them.
| Dataset | Description | Original source | Where used |
|---|---|---|---|
meat.csv |
Meat and carbohydrate consumption vs. life expectancy in 175 countries, averaged over 2011–2013 | You et al. (2022) | Ch 5, 19 |
netflix_titles.csv |
7,788 Netflix titles with type, rating, production country, and release year | TidyTuesday, 2021-04-20, from a Kaggle dataset | Ch 1 |
stanford-open-policing-combined-data.csv |
Traffic-stop summary statistics (stop, search, arrest, and citation rates) by county and driver race | Stanford Open Policing Project (Pierson et al. 2020) | Ch 1 |
survey.csv |
GPA and major for students in an introductory statistics course at Duke University | IMS exercise data | Ch 17 |
B.5 Using the datasets
In Jamovi or another statistics package. Every dataset above is downloadable as a CSV from the openintro website (e.g., https://www.openintro.org/data/csv/<name>.csv), or as tab-separated/txt/rdata from the same page. The UWL-local files are linked directly above.
In R. After installing the source package:
library(openintro)
data(penguins, package = "palmerpenguins") # if the dataset is in another package
head(mcu_films) # peek at the first rows
?mcu_films # open the documentationFull openintro dataset catalog. The complete list of openintro datasets (400+, not all used in this book) lives at openintrostat.github.io/openintro/reference/.
The list above is auto-generated by scanning chapter and exercise source files for named dataset references. If you spot a dataset used in the book that isn’t listed, please report it via the Report an Issue — Textbook board or annotate the offending chapter in the 145 Textbook Review Hypothesis group.