Most Cost Effective Car for Particular Trip

Cairstair
September 24, 2016

Introduction

This presentation is part two of the Data Products Assignment for Coursera. You can find all R code for this presentation at my github account.

Link: https://github.com/Cairstair/Data_Products_Assignment

For those that are reviewing this for the assignment. I kindly appreciate any words of advice or suggestions.

What is this application?

The “Most Cost Effective Car for Particular Trip” app is designed to establish based on parameters that you have the ability to enter. The goal is to establish which car in the mtcars dataset is best suited to your needs. The mtcars dataset is taken directly from R.

Information that you will need to provide:

  1. Cost of Gasoline in the region of your trip.
  2. What your budget is that you can afford.
  3. Choose desired characteristics (Cylinders, Displacement, Horsepower, and Transmission).

The table provided will give you only vehicles that match the desired parameters. Thefore, allowing you to choose the most appopiate car.

Dataset Summary

Data within the mtcars dataset was extracted from the 1974 Motor Trend US Magazine. It comprises of fuel consumption and 10 aspects of autombile design. The preformance for 32 autombiles are included.

The dataset is 32 entrise wiht 11 columns. 

head(mtcars)

                   mpg cyl disp  hp drat    wt  qsec vs am gear carb
Mazda RX4         21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.620 16.46  0  1    4    4
Mazda RX4 Wag     21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.875 17.02  0  1    4    4
Datsun 710        22.8   4  108  93 3.85 2.320 18.61  1  1    4    1
Hornet 4 Drive    21.4   6  258 110 3.08 3.215 19.44  1  0    3    1
Hornet Sportabout 18.7   8  360 175 3.15 3.440 17.02  0  0    3    2
Valiant           18.1   6  225 105 2.76 3.460 20.22  1  0    3    1

Why This App

The benefit of this application is that it will allow users to be capable of choosing from a variety of vehicles. If the dataset was updated to the most present cars in the company Zipcar; it would be far easier for individuals to choose the most appropiate car.

This could be provided to individuals for their ease of access to the company. Without fear of sales pitches.