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    Data Science Excel Hackathon

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    Shane Smelser
    For my Data Science in Public Affairs course, we were tasked with formulating a policy recommendation from a data set on accidents around the country. First, my team created two hypotheses. After that, we tested these hypotheses using pivot tables and nested IF and IF/AND statements. After we got our results, we visualized the data by converting them into column and bar charts that easily showed the the test results. Finally, we wrote our policy recommendation. This is a copy of the hypotheses, policy recommendation, as well as our test results and charts.

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    For my Data Science in Public Affairs course, we were tasked with formulating a policy recommendation from a data set on accidents around the country. First, my team created two hypotheses. After that, we tested these hypotheses using pivot tables and nested IF and IF/AND statements. After we got our results, we visualized the data by converting them into column and bar charts that easily showed the the test results. Finally, we wrote our policy recommendation. This is a copy of the hypotheses, policy recommendation, as well as our test results and charts.

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    For my Data Science in Public Affairs course, we were tasked with formulating a policy recommendation from a data set on accidents around the country. First, my team created two hypotheses. After that, we tested these hypotheses using pivot tables and nested IF and IF/AND statements. After we got our results, we visualized the data by converting them into column and bar charts that easily showed the the test results. Finally, we wrote our policy recommendation. This is a copy of the hypotheses, policy recommendation, as well as our test results and charts.

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    Data Science Excel Hackathon

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    Shane Smelser
    For my Data Science in Public Affairs course, we were tasked with formulating a policy recommendation from a data set on accidents around the country. First, my team created two hypotheses. After that, we tested these hypotheses using pivot tables and nested IF and IF/AND statements. After we got our results, we visualized the data by converting them into column and bar charts that easily showed the the test results. Finally, we wrote our policy recommendation. This is a copy of the hypotheses, policy recommendation, as well as our test results and charts.

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    Hack1: Excel

    Team Members: ___Matthew Serf, Morgan Rutledge, Shane Smelser____________________

    Statements & Recommendation


    Hypothesis 1: The most crashes occurred during wet weather conditions (Rain, sleet or
    hail and snow) with dark—not lighted conditions than any other weather or light
    condition.

    Was the hypothesis supported? What method used to determine this?

    -In this process we utilized nested IF functions to create a key for weather conditions as well
    as a key for the lighting conditions. Using these keys we created a pivot table that clearly
    showed that most crashes occurred during daylight hours with clear weather conditions.
    These results do not support our hypothesis of most crashes occurring during wet weather
    conditions with dark-not lighted lighting.

    Hypothesis 2: The most crashes occurred during the weekday (Mon-Fri) on the
    interstate than during any other route during the week.

    Was the hypothesis supported? What method used to determine this?

    -Our hypothesis was not fully supported. While most of the crashes did happen during the
    week, the location in which they occurred the most frequent was actually the State Highway
    and not the interstate. We found this out by using a combination of IF AND functions to
    discern weekdays from weekends and then categorized the routes by using a similar method
    of nested IF functions. We then displayed the results in a Pivot Table
    Policy Recommendation Statement:

    We recommend that the nation implement a policy that requires stricter enforcement of speed
    limits on State Highways throughout the week, especially during high volume traffic times
    such as midday with clear weather conditions.

    Optional: Identify something in your work that you are particularly proud of or worked on.
    Provide a brief explanation of what you did here and instructions on how I may locate that in
    your Excel file.

    The charts that we used are intuitive and clearly show our findings. You have the ability to
    expand or decrease the amount of detail by clicking the plus/minus buttons on the lower right-
    hand corner of the chart for hypothesis #1.
    Count of Key for
    Row Labels W
    dark-lighted 5919
    dark-notlighted 9083
    dark-unknownlighting 233
    dawn 654
    daylight 15308
    dusk 795
    other 12
    unknown 162
    Grand Total 32166

    Count of Accidents based on Lighting and


    Weather Conditions
    Accidents occur more in the daylight by a wide margin

    16000
    14000
    12000
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    6000
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    0
    Count of Route Key Column Labels
    Grand
    Row Labels weekday weekend Total
    County Road 3128 1545 4673
    interstate 2480 1290 3770
    Local St. F-r 143 77 220
    Local St. M 3607 1893 5500
    Local St. T 745 327 1072
    US Highway 3447 1728 5175
    State Highway 6262 3167 9429
    Other 680 367 1047
    unknown 837 443 1280
    Grand Total 21329 10837 32166

    Accidents by Route for Weekend and Weekdays


    Most accidents occurred on state highways on weekdays
    unknown
    Other
    State Highway
    US Highway
    Local St. T weekend

    Local St. M weekday

    Local St. F-r


    interstate
    County Road

    0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000

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