nycflights13
An R data package containing all out-bound flights from NYC in 2013 + useful metdata
This package provides five datasets containing information about all 336,776 flights that departed from NYC airports (EWR, JFK, and LGA) in 2013. It’s designed as a teaching and learning resource for data manipulation and analysis in R.
The package is valuable for understanding flight delays because it includes complementary datasets beyond just flight records: hourly weather data for each airport, plane construction details, airport locations, and airline information. These related tables allow for realistic practice with joins, data cleaning, and exploratory analysis on a moderately-sized real-world dataset. The data is clean enough to be accessible but complex enough to demonstrate common data analysis challenges.
