The Stata dataset website.dta records visits to www.econmodel.com over the
past 48 weeks. Your assignment is to produce a report analyzing traffic at this web site. We will develop some specific questions as we go along, but your first step is trying to download the data and load it into Stata.
To get started, click on the link above with your right mouse button. Choose "Save Target As". Save the file someplace where you can find it later. Start Stata 8. Choose the menu option "File | Open". Go find website.dta, and load it into Stata.
Once you have website.dta loaded, start "getting to know your data." Look at the raw data in the data editor. Generate some summary statistics. Make some graphs.
If you generate any transformed data, it is a very good idea to save your changed data in a new dataset using "File | Save As". If you make a mistake or if you just make a mess, you can then go back to the original data.
The variables are as follows:
day, month, year are the calendar date. dayofweek is 1 for Sunday through 7 for Saturday. week is 1 through 48.
visits is the number of different IP addresses that requested pages from the web site during a given day. pages is the number of web pages requested during a given day. hits is the number of files requested during a given day. The number of hits is typically much greater than the number of pages because each graphic element on a page is a different file. bandwidth is the number of megabytes requested during a given day.
Posted by bparke at February 16, 2004 11:31 AM