***************************************************** CPE 365 Alex Dekhtyar Cal Poly Computer Science Department San Luis Obispo College of Engineering California dekhtyar@csc.calpoly.edu ***************************************************** MARATHON DATASET Version 1.0 October 8, 2007 ***************************************************** Sources: this is a synthesized dataset ****************************************************** This file describes the contents of the MARATHON dataset developed for the CPE 365, Introduction to Databases, course at Cal Poly. The dataset contains information about a large half-marathon race that took place at some point somewhere in New England. Each row represents information about one race participant, and his/her achievements in the race. General Conventions. 1. All files in the dataset are CSV (comma-separated values) files. 2. First line of each file provides the names of columns. Second line may be empty, or may contain the first row of the data. 3. All string values are enclosed in single quotes (') The dataset contains one file: - marathon.csv : results of the half-marathon Individual files have the following formats. ************************************************************************** marathon.csv Place : overall place of the participant in the race Time : time the participant took to run the race (hh:mi:ss) Pace : participant's pace in the race (mi:ss) GroupPlace : participant's place within his/her age and gender group Group : participant's group Age : participant's age Sex : participant's sex BIBNumber : participant's bib number (note: not necessarily unique) FirstName : participant's first name LastName : participant's last name Town : participant's home town State : participant's state ************************************************************************** ************************************************************************** Permission granted to use and distribute this dataset in its current form, provided this file is kept unchanged and is distributed together with the data. Permission granted to modify and expand this dataset, provided this file is updated accordingly with new information. ************************************************************************** **************************************************************************