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United Flight Delays (Summer 2015)
Departure delays for United flights out of SFO — thousands of rows for sampling and the law of averages.
United Airlines domestic departures from San Francisco in summer 2015: date, flight number, destination, and departure delay in minutes.
Big enough to sample from meaningfully — this is the workhorse dataset for empirical distributions, random sampling, and simulation.
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