The data was collected by the Planet Money podcast to test a theory about crowd-sourcing. Penelope's actual weight was 1,355 pounds.
weight - Guesses of Penelope's weight, in pounds.
Source
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/07/429720443/17-205-people-guessed-the-weight-of-a-cow-heres-how-they-did
Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.