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Data Update 1

 1. What dataset will you use for your final report? (title of your dataset, include a link to it and claim it at the URL above and here too) The dataset that I will be using for my final report is titled, " Consumer Price Index, monthly, not seasonally adjusted" and it is linked at the appropriate URL given in the handout provided. 2. Describe the dataset. What kind of data does it contain?  My dataset  will cover the inflation rate of prices of things like gas, groceries, and rent to see how drastically different the cost to live is now vs then. The dataset includes all of the provinces of Canada's CPI rate for energy, gasoline, rent, groceries, etc... for each month of the year. The data is based off of a CPI which provides a baseline starting at 100 to give context to each datapoint and its respective increase in price/time. It contains data that runs from 2015-2022 3. Is there anything about your data that you don’t understand? (i.e. what a column heading means). H...