When I was on vacation back in August, I spent 10 days with my parents. Over the course of this vacation, I discovered that my parents had been keeping extensive fuel economy records for their two vehicles. The data on one of them, a Dodge Stratus, went all the way back to 2003. Finding myself with a lot of free time and a computer sporting Excel, I decided to do some data mining to see what I could learn.
The result of this is a short paper that I wrote on the plane ride back to California. I’m toying with the idea of submitting this paper somewhere, but I thought I’d share it here and get opinions. I need more sources, but for now I’m happy with what I learned from this exercise and I am very happy with what I learned from the data.
You can download a copy of the paper here: An Analysis of Automobile Fuel Efficiency and the Time-Dependence of Gasoline Prices: a Single-Vehicle Approach
