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## Fictional sales data for bike shops purchasing Cannondale bikes

### Description

A dataset containing the fictional bicycle orders spanning 2011 through 2015. Hypothetically, the `bike_sales` data are similar to sales data mainatained in a business' sales data base. The unit price and model names come from data provided by model for the bicycle manufacturer, Cannondale (2016). The customers (bicycle shops) including name, location, etc and the orders including quantity purchased and order dates are fictional. The data is intended for implementing business analytics techniques (e.g. forecast, clustering, etc) to identify underlying trends.

### Usage

    bike_sales

### Format

A data frame with 15644 rows and 17 variables:

order.date

  Date the order was placed

order.id

  A unique order identification number

order.line

  The sequential identification number for products on and order

quantity

  Number of units purchased

price

  The unit price of the bicycle

price.ext

  The extended price = price x quantity

customer.id

  A unique customer identification number

bikeshop.name

  The customer name

bikeshop.city

  The city that the bike shop is located

bikeshop.state

  The state that the bike shop is located

latitude

  The geograhpic latitude of the customer location

longitude

  The geograhpic longitude of the customer location

product.id

  A unique product identification number

model

  The model name of the bicycle

category.primary

  The main bicycle category, either "Mountain" or "Road"

category.secondary

  One of nine more specific bicycle categories

frame

  The bicycle frame material, either "Carbon" or "Aluminum"

### Source

The 2016 bicycle model names and prices originated from http://www.cannondale.com/en/USA

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