Data

Obtain one daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly time-series data that exhibits at least
trend and seasonality, with at least 30 data points. A time series is a sequence of data
points with the same time interval of successive measurements.
1. Please use Tab 1 worksheet in the template for this assignment.
2. Please provide your data source and re-organize time series in a column from the
oldest (at the top) to the
newest (at the bottom) without any blank cells in between if
necessary.
3. Please plot the data using an appropriate chart type in Excel.
4. Describe the data patterns with reasoning and explanations.
How the trend and seasonality exhibit in the data?
Did you observe any cycles? What
are the possible causes for these pattern(s)?
Note:
Please try your best to select a high-quality data set without any missing values or too
many zeros, you will also need it for assignment #2. If you are working and can get some
data at your place of work, that would be great. If you need help to get some data,
try the
following websites:
http://www.data.gov/
http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/histtabs.html
http://www.statcrunch.com/5.0/shareddata.php?keywords=regression
https://www.zillow.com/research/data/

Please use the excel sheet to do the assignment.

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