Class Assignment #1
Dania Azhari
*I worked on this alone because I could not be in class today, as there is somewhere that I really had to be at this time, so I worked on this prior to class.
So, originally, I began by examining at the tables and trying out the "first steps" that were given on the page, such as below, which didn't tell me a lot by themselves.
Below is the data for the month of June for Temperature and kWh per Day.
Then, I was curious about the average for each month and found that values do not stay consistent each month, which is expected with temperature, but made me curious about other monthly trends.
I wanted to see how other factors were affected by each month, see if there were any monthly trends that go hand in hand with this. Below is what I found comparing E_kWh and Therms, and I found that they follow a very similar trend, as they increase around the same time.
Sorry as I was not able to include a legend (I ran into errors when adding it with R), so here is the "legend" for now:
blue: Average Energy (kWh)
red: Average Temperature (F)
I tried to compare other factors, checking simply for general trends, as I know that their metrics are not equivalent, which made me unsure what to call the y axis...
I found that water usage in gallons also followed a similar trend in temperature and the opposite in gas cost, which makes sense (more energy usage with less gas cost).
Sorry as I was not able to include a legend (I ran into errors when adding it with R), so here is the "legend" for now:
blue: Average Energy (kWh)
red: Average Temperature (F)
green: Water Usage (Gallons)
purple: Gas (Cost)
I continued to compare other factors, checking simply for general trends, as I know that their metrics are not equivalent, which made me unsure what to call the y axis...
Average therms per month seems to be directly correlated with average gas cost per month, which makes sense, and interestingly, it seems water cost doesn't affect water usage, since water cost remains constant, so water usage must be affected by other factors, like temperature, perhaps.
Sorry as I was not able to include a legend (I ran into errors when adding it with R), so here is the "legend" for now:
blue: Average Energy (kWh)
red: Average Temperature (F)
green: Average Water Usage (Gallons)
purple: Average Gas Cost
yellow: Average Water Cost
black: Average Therms
