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Codebook for NYC Flights Dataset

Codebook: NYC Flights Dataset

  • Dataset name: nycflights
  • Location: Loaded automatically when the openintro package is loaded. Also available online at https://github.com/CUNY-epibios/PUBH614/tree/main/datasets
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Dataset Overview

This dataset contains information about all flights that departed from NYC in 2013. The dataset includes 500 observations with 16 variables.

Variables

year

  • Description: Year of the flight
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 2013
  • Missing values: 0

month

  • Description: Month of the flight
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 1 to 12
  • Missing values: 0

day

  • Description: Day of the flight
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 1 to 31
  • Missing values: 0

dep_time

  • Description: Departure time (in HHMM format)
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 1 to 2,400
  • Missing values: 0

dep_delay

  • Description: Departure delay (in minutes)
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: -21 to 1,301
  • Missing values: 0

arr_time

  • Description: Arrival time (in HHMM format)
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 1 to 2,400
  • Missing values: 0

arr_delay

  • Description: Arrival delay (in minutes)
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: -73 to 1,272
  • Missing values: 0

carrier

  • Description: Carrier code
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: Various carrier codes, e.g. 9E, AA, AS, etc.
  • Missing values: 0

tailnum

  • Description: Tail number of the plane
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: Various tail numbers, e.g. N0EGMQ, N10156, etc.
  • Missing values: 0

flight

  • Description: Flight number
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 1 to 6,181
  • Missing values: 0

origin

  • Description: Origin airport
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: JFK, LGA, EWR
  • Missing values: 0

dest

  • Description: Destination airport
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: Various 3-letter destination codes, e.g. ABQ, ACK, ALB, etc.
  • Missing values: 0

air_time

  • Description: Air time (in minutes)
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 22 to 686
  • Missing values: 0

distance

  • Description: Distance (in miles)
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 94 to 4,983
  • Missing values: 0

hour

  • Description: Scheduled departure hour
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 0 to 24
  • Missing values: 0

minute

  • Description: Scheduled departure minute
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: 0 to 59
  • Missing values: 0

Summary Statistics

  • tailnum omitted for brevity as it contains 3,490 unique values (one for each individual airplane).
  • dest omitted for brevity as it contains 102 unique values.

Data Quality Notes

  • The dataset has no missing values in any columns.
  • Although flight is coded as numeric, it should be considered as a categorical variable.

Acknowledgements

This codebook was drafted by Microsoft Copilot and edited by Levi Waldron.