FILE | DESCRIPTION | PROPERTIES |
AIDS | This shows the total number of cases of AIDS in the USA in 4 month intervals from 1982. | Increasing, Concave Up |
AIRTEMP | The air temperature as a function of the height above the earth's surface. | Decreasing, Linear |
BACTERIA | This shows the growth of a bacterial colony as a function of time. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
BEANROOT | The length of the root of a bean as a function of time. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
BEANS | Beans were placed in a styrofoam cup, covered them lightly with soil, and watered regularly. On the tenth day sprouts emerged. This shows the height as a function of time. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
BOMBAY | The total number of deaths in Bombay from a plague spread by rats during the period December 1905 to July 1906. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
BOSTON | The population density of Boston in 1940 as a function of the distance from the city center. | Decreasing, Concave Up |
BOTSWANA | This shows the population of Botswana from 1975 to 1990. | Increasing, Concave Up |
CYNTHIA | Cynthia's approximate height from age 1 to age 12. | Increasing, Concave Down |
DIOXIDE | This shows the decomposition of Nitrogen Dioxide as a function of time. | Decreasing, Concave Up |
DOVES | This shows the population of the collared dove as it spread throughout Britain from 1955 to 1964. | Increasing, Concave Up |
DRUGS | This shows the concentration of theophylline in the blood stream as a function of time after injection of an initial dose. | Decreasing, Concave Up |
DUCKWEED | This shows the results of an experiment in which Duckweed frondslarge compound leaveswere counted every week. | Increasing, Concave Up |
FLOWER | This shows the height of sunflower plants as a function of time. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
GUINEA | The pre-natal growth of a Guinea-Pig. The length is a function of time. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
HALFLIFE | This shows the decay of the 64Cu isotope as a function of time. | Decreasing, Concave Up |
HOOKE1 | A spring was suspended vertically and various masses were attached to the bottom end. The extension was measured as a function of the mass. | Increasing, Linear |
HOOKE2 | A spring was suspended vertically and various masses were attached to the bottom end. The extension was measured as a function of the mass. | Increasing, Linear |
HOUSTON | This shows the population of Houston from 1850 to 1980. | Increasing, Concave Up |
JUDGE1 | A subject was given some objects and asked to judge their weights where a 98 gram object was assigned the value 100. This shows the result of such an experiment. | Increasing, Concave Up |
JUDGE2 | A subject was shown a 400 sq cm square and advised that its area was assigned the number 20 units as area. The subject was then given various numbers and asked to draw a squares with those numbers as the area when compared to the 20 units area. This shows the result of such an experiment. | Increasing, Concave Down |
LUPINE | This shows the growth of a Lupine from day 4 to day 21. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
MAIZE | The weight of an ear of maize as a function of time. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
MARRIED | The age at which 41,000 Australian men, born in the same year, were married is shown where the second column shows the percentage of the 41,000 men who were married, while the first column shows the age at which they were married. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
MEMORY | The average percentage memory loss as a function of time. | Decreasing, Concave Up |
MILE | The table shows the year when the men's world record for the mile was broken this century, and the time for the mile. | Increasing, Linear |
MOTHS | The number of acres defoliated by gypsy moths as a function of time.
| Increasing, Concave Up |
NITRO | This shows the decomposition of Ethyl m-Nitrobenzoate as a function of time. | Decreasing, Concave Up |
PEROXIDE | This shows the decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide as a function of time. | Decreasing, Concave Up |
PLANETS | This relates the distance of a planet from the sun to the period of the planet, the time it takes for the planet to orbit the sun, a "year".
| Increasing, Concave Up |
PLANT | This shows the total area of the leaves of a plant as a function of time. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
POSTNATAL | The length, from month to month, of a newly born child. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
PRENATAL | The length, from month to month, of a prenatal child. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
RATS | In this experiment 144 seven month old rats were observed over a period of 30 months. The total number that died was recorded every month | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
RECOGN | The percentage of words remembered is shown as a function of the time elapsed since being shown the words. | Decreasing, Concave Up |
RVALUE | The thickness of the insulation material in inches as a function of the R-Value. | Increasing, Linear |
SATIS | A group of five people worked continuously for 4 hours grading papers. Every 20 minutes they were each asked to estimate "the satisfyingness or tolerability or zest or interest in the work" on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 meant extreme distaste and 10 extreme pleasure. This shows the average satisfaction of the five as a function of the 20-minute time interval.
| Decreasing, Linear |
SPECTRUM | Very high energy particles are found in the radiation belts of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. During Pioneer 10's flyby of Jupiter in 1973, these data were obtained. It shows the number of particles per unit time at different energies in Jupiter's radiation belt.
| Decreasing, Concave Up |
SUCROSE | This shows the decrease in the concentration of Sucrose as a function of time when it is hydrolyzed by the catalytic action of the enzyme Sucrase. | Decreasing, Concave Up |
URUGUAY | In 1961 fertilized grass-legume pastures were introduced into Uruguay. This shows the total number of ranchers who adopted this new technology from 1965 to 1976. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |
WARM | This shows the rise in temperature of the earth from the 1860 figure as a function of time since 1900. | Increasing, Concave Down |
WORLDPOP | This shows the world population from 1650 to 1990. | Increasing, Concave Up |
YEAST | This shows the amount of yeast as a function of time. | Increasing, Sigmoidal |