margaretblue/atus-analysis

W4D4 Homework

American Time Use Analysis

Description

Use the U.S. Department of Labor's data on Americans' time use for research and analysis.

Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should understand:

• How to use public data for analysis
• How to translate data from CSVs to relational databases
• How to publish your own data analysis as a notebook

Performance Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should be able to:

• Use pandas to parse and analyze data
• Use matplotlib to chart data
• Clean data

Details

Deliverables

• A Git repo called atus-analysis containing at least:
  • README.md file explaining how to run your project
  • a requirements.txt file
  • an IPython notebook with your analysis
  • a suite of tests for your project

Requirements

• Passing unit tests
• No PEP8 or Pyflakes warnings or errors

Normal Mode

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes yearly data about Americans' use of their time: American Time Use Survey. This data is used to find out information like how many hours the average person spends per day doing household activities. You can see the 2013 survey results for more examples. You should use these results to double-check your logic as well.

You will download the 2013 files and use these to do analysis. The questions you are trying to answer are up to you, but they should at least:

• Compare different populations (people with children and people without, people of differing age groups, men and women, or other groupings)
• Answer macro-level questions and micro-level questions (for example, the amount of leisure for the macro-level, the types of things people do for leisure for the micro-level)

Your final analysis should be in the form of an IPython Notebook with both narrative analysis and supporting charts. Your supporting code should be in normal Python files.

Additional Resources

• How to use ATUS microdata files
• ATUS Coding Lexicon - you will need this