Project 2: Patterns in Data

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Overview 
 
A survey has been given to 500 people to help decide what types of shoes to recommend. Using the data, you need to 
identify any patterns or trends in the data that can help our model make predictions. We should look for “hot spots” in 
the data where there are large clusters of answers, then use that to identify trends. 
Question 1: Where do you plan to spend time today? 
 
Shoe Preference 
 cowboy boots crocs dress shoes sandals tennis shoes work boots 
bed 2 13 0 16 0 0 
city 23 6 15 10 47 40 
indoors 14 10 50 18 88 10 
nature 15 19 12 28 17 47 
 
What is a trend you can find in the data? Use it to complete this sentence: 
 
People who answer _____________________________ also tend to wear __________________________ 
 
Question 2: What is the weather like today? 
 
Shoe Preference 
 cowboy boots crocs dress shoes sandals tennis shoes work boots 
rainy 18 8 17 8 11 25 
snowy 5 5 21 0 0 55 
sunny 16 16 15 41 74 6 
windy 15 19 24 23 67 11 
 
What is a trend you can find in the data? Use it to complete this sentence: 
 
People who answer _____________________________ also tend to wear __________________________ 
Question 3: Do you plan on wearing socks today? 
 
Shoe Preference 
 cowboy boots crocs dress shoes sandals tennis shoes work boots 
no 36 29 20 61 25 0 
yes 18 19 57 11 127 97 
 
What is a trend you can find in the data? Use it to complete this sentence: 
 
People who answer _____________________________ also tend to wear __________________________ 
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Overview 
 
A survey has been given to 500 people to help decide what types of shoes to recommend. Using the data, you need to 
identify any patterns or trends in the data that can help our model make predictions. We should look for “hot spots” in 
the data where there are large clusters of answers, then use that to identify trends. 
Question 1: Where do you plan to spend time today? 
 
Shoe Preference 
 cowboy boots crocs dress shoes sandals tennis shoes work boots 
bed 2 13 0 16 0 0 
city 23 6 15 10 47 40 
indoors 14 10 50 18 88 10 
nature 15 19 12 28 17 47 
 
What is a trend you can find in the data? Use it to complete this sentence: 
 
People who answer _____________________________ also tend to wear __________________________ 
 
Question 2: What is the weather like today? 
 
Shoe Preference 
 cowboy boots crocs dress shoes sandals tennis shoes work boots 
rainy 18 8 17 8 11 25 
snowy 5 5 21 0 0 55 
sunny 16 16 15 41 74 6 
windy 15 19 24 23 67 11 
 
What is a trend you can find in the data? Use it to complete this sentence: 
 
People who answer _____________________________ also tend to wear __________________________ 
Question 3: Do you plan on wearing socks today? 
 
Shoe Preference 
 cowboy boots crocs dress shoes sandals tennis shoes work boots 
no 36 29 20 61 25 0 
yes 18 19 57 11 127 97 
 
What is a trend you can find in the data? Use it to complete this sentence: 
 
People who answer _____________________________ also tend to wear __________________________ 
Question 4: How would you describe your plans for today? 
 
Shoe Preference 
 cowboy boots crocs dress shoes sandals tennis shoes work boots 
casual 21 15 4 26 78 9 
lazy 7 13 0 34 29 0 
professional 22 18 73 0 34 12 
work 4 2 0 12 11 76 
 
What is a trend you can find in the data? Use it to complete this sentence: 
 
People who answer _____________________________ also tend to wear __________________________ 
 
Question 5: Do you want people to notice and compliment your shoes? 
 
Shoe Preference 
 cowboy boots crocs dress shoes sandals tennis shoes work boots 
no 0 19 42 35 29 53 
yes 54 29 35 37 123 44 
 
What is a trend you can find in the data? Use it to complete this sentence: 
 
People who answer _____________________________ also tend to wear __________________________ 
 
 
Shoe Predictions 
 
1) Using the data from all five questions, describe a recommendation you think our model can make based on the 
answers to several questions. You can use these sentence starters to help: 
 
Our model should recommend shoe ______________________________ when people select the following answers: 
 
A. _________________________________________________________________________________ 
 
 
B. _________________________________________________________________________________ 
 
 
C. _________________________________________________________________________________ 
 
 
 
2) Using the data from all five questions, are there any responses that don’t seem to be very helpful in predicting 
shoes? This means all of the answers to that question are around the same value, so it’s hard to find any “hot spots” 
that can help our model make predictions. 
 
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