Mayfield High School data handling Coursework

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Introduction

In this investigation, I have been given data from Mayfield High School. Although the name of the school is likely to be fictional the data itself has come from real students. The data I have been given is for year 7 to year 11 students. There is information on around 170 students for each year. The following are the types of information we got on each student, year group, surname, forename, age, gender, hair colour, eye colour, which handed they are, favourite colour, favourite music, favourite sport, favourite subject, favourite T.V programme, average hours of T.V watched, IQ, height (m), weight (kg), distance traveled to school, Means of transport to school, number of siblings, number of pets, key stage two results for, maths, English and science. There is too much data so I will use Excel to filter it. I will choose IQ and KS2 results. Since there are too much data I would not be able to examine it probably. Some of the data on the sheet is quantitative data, so I would need numerical data. This is good because I will be able to narrow it down using maths statistics. I will also use reference