For my data set, I examined the “Monthly and Seasonal Temperatures, St. Louis (since 1874).” Although there is no creator explicitly credited to this data set, it comes from a .gov website, so it is reasonable to infer that it is coming from the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service is a government department responsible for providing weather forecasts and warnings for the United States. No sources of data are stated either, but based on assumption, various tools were probably used to measure and collect temperature and other data. It was more than likely created to find what the average temperatures in St. Louis are by season, which makes me wonder if this data is also being used to examine topics such as climate change in the St. Louis region. The data is formatted in a table. 

The data is structured in a table with the seasons and their corresponding months at the top and the years on the side. I think the data set is very inclusive of a lot of information because it includes the temperatures month by month and year by year, so there are a lot of different ways to use this information. This data could help answer questions about what the average temperature might be on a given day, how the temperature changes throughout the year, and at what rate, or even if there is climate change happening in the region. 

Although the actual data seems to provide a decent amount of information, there is not a lot of information about where the data is coming from or who created it. There are definitely gaps in knowing how the data was cleaned, what it is supposed to be used for, and how the people creating it may have different perspectives and biases that impact how they collect and display data. I personally would use this data to predict temperatures for a given month and to explore climate change and how it is impacting the region.