Passengers and Crew on the RMS Titanic

Description

the titanic data is a complete list of passengers and crew members on the RMS Titanic. It includes a variable indicating whether a person did survive the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.

Usage

data("titanic")

Format

A data frame containing 2207 observations on 11 variables.

name

a string with the name of the passenger.

gender

a factor with levels male and female.

age

a numeric value with the persons age on the day of the sinking. The age of babies (under 12 months) is given as a fraction of one year (1/month).

class

a factor specifying the class for passengers or the type of service aboard for crew members.

embarked

a factor with the persons place of of embarkment.

country

a factor with the persons home country.

ticketno

a numeric value specifying the persons ticket number (NA for crew members).

fare

a numeric value with the ticket price (NA for crew members, musicians and employees of the shipyard company).

sibsp

an ordered factor specifying the number if siblings/spouses aboard; adopted from Vanderbild data set (see below).

parch

an ordered factor specifying the number of parents/children aboard; adopted from Vanderbild data set (see below).

survived

a factor with two levels (no and yes) specifying whether the person has survived the sinking.

Details

The website https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/ offers detailed information about passengers and crew members on the RMS Titanic. According to the website 1317 passengers and 890 crew member were abord.

8 musicians and 9 employees of the shipyard company are listed as passengers, but travelled with a free ticket, which is why they have NA values in fare. In addition to that, fare is truely missing for a few regular passengers.

Source

The complete list of persons on the RMS titanic was downloaded from https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/ on April 5, 2016. The information given in sibsp and parch was adopoted from a data set obtained from https://hbiostat.org/data/.

References

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/ and https://hbiostat.org/data/.

Examples

library("stablelearner")

data("titanic", package = "stablelearner")
summary(titanic)

        name         gender          age                       class    
 Length   :2207   female: 489   Min.   : 0.1667   1st             :324  
 N.unique :2202   male  :1718   1st Qu.:22.0000   2nd             :284  
 N.blank  :   0                 Median :29.0000   3rd             :709  
 Min.nchar:  11                 Mean   :30.4367   deck crew       : 66  
 Max.nchar:  62                 3rd Qu.:38.0000   engineering crew:324  
                                Max.   :74.0000   restaurant staff: 69  
                                NAs    :2         victualling crew:431  
 embarked          country        ticketno            fare        
 B: 197   England      :1125   Min.   :      2   Min.   :  3.030  
 C: 271   United States: 264   1st Qu.:  14262   1st Qu.:  7.181  
 Q: 123   Ireland      : 137   Median : 111426   Median : 14.090  
 S:1616   Sweden       : 105   Mean   : 284216   Mean   : 33.405  
          Lebanon      :  71   3rd Qu.: 347077   3rd Qu.: 31.061  
          (Other)      : 424   Max.   :3101317   Max.   :512.061  
          NAs          :  81   NAs    :891       NAs    :916      
     sibsp         parch      survived  
 0      :889   0      :1000   no :1496  
 1      :319   1      : 170   yes: 711  
 2      : 42   2      : 113             
 4      : 22   3      :   8             
 3      : 20   4      :   6             
 (Other): 15   (Other):  10             
 NAs    :900   NAs    : 900