Powerlifting Data
Powerlifting is a strength sport where participants compete to lift the heaviest weight. Competitors compete within weight classes, so their opponents are around the same weight as them. The sport consists of three different lifts: Squat, Bench, and Deadlift.
A sample of competitive Powerlifting data is available on the SCORE Data Repository at https://data.scorenetwork.org/powerlifting/openpowerlifting.html
There are several modules in development based on this data (using polynomial regression and non-linear least squares to explore the relationship between lifting weight and age). However, there are also several other modules that could be created with these data.
Here is a quick list of other potential modules.
One-Way ANOVA: Comparing weight lifted across Age-classes
Matched pairs CI: Squat vs Deadlift
Correlations: Exploring correlations between the three lifts
Multicolinearity: VIFs for predicting Squat using Deadlift and Bench (and other stuff as needed)
SLR: Relationship between body weight and lift amount
Baseball Data
Several Good Sources available on the Data Repository.
Baseball Savant has a huge amount of data available. The following two links contain subsets of these data to be more easily used in a classroom setting.
Modules could probably be built around the following statistical topics.
- Frequency tables, bar charts, proportions, conditional distributions
- Mean, median, standard deviation, histograms, boxplots, shape of distribution
- Side-by-side visualizations, comparing means/proportions, two-group comparisons
- Longitudinal comparisons, trend detection, consistency metrics