Average Heights and Weights for American Women

Jenina Halitsky
December 21, 2014

Women!

One of the biggest no-no's in any conversation is talking about women's height and weight. No matter what, you will offend a lady when the topic is brought up. Luckily, as a lady, I can touch base on this subject and let you know the correlation between height and weight.

Data

data(women)
women

   height weight
1      58    115
2      59    117
3      60    120
4      61    123
5      62    126
6      63    129
7      64    132
8      65    135
9      66    139
10     67    142
11     68    146
12     69    150
13     70    154
14     71    159
15     72    164

Graph

library(ggplot2)
library(datasets)
    ggplot(data=women, aes(x=height, y=weight, group=1)) + 
    geom_line(colour="red", linetype="dotted", size=1.5) + 
    geom_point(colour="red", size=4, shape=21, fill="white")

plot of chunk graph

Shiny App

The shiny app allows a person to select their height to see what the average weight would be.

Please feel free to view the shiny app at: (http://jmhalitsky.shinyapps.io/developingdataproducts_Women)

Conclusion

Unfortunately, the data from this dataset does not answer a few questions:

    1.  What body type does she currently have?

    2.  What frame size does she have (small, medium, large)?

    3.  Is she currently overweight or underweight?

    4.  It doesn't tell how large of a sample it is.