Introduction

Many city, state, nation governments, corporations, and other public entities provide open/free access to data they collect.

Project #1

This is an open project. The programmer is basically free to chose what and how to do the project.

1. Pick a area or subject you are interested in. Select one or more free databases. Write a Python program to access the data and generate statistics to analyze the data. For example.

• calculate the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation
• display the results
• plot the result
• collect data into tables
• collect data into categories (e.g. income ranges, age ranges, ...)
• whatever is useful and meaningful

2. Display the statistics/data as a table, plot, graph, pie chart, ... (make it easy for the user to understand)

3. Finally, write a brief description of what the data is saying.

FYI - Useful Tools

matplotlib.pyplot (documentation and examples)
pandas (fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use data analysis and manipulation tool)

supplemental links

Potential Sources of Data

The following are a few links that potentially lead you to databases, etc. There are many more available on the web.