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Untidy datasets

squirrel_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schoolkidrich/R/main/DATA%20607/project2/2018_Central_Park_Squirrel_Census_-_Squirrel_Data.csv"

gdp_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schoolkidrich/R/main/DATA%20607/project2/gdp.csv"

candy_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schoolkidrich/R/main/DATA%20607/project2/candyhierarchy2017.csv"

1) Squirrel dataset

squirrel_df = read.csv(squirrel_url)
head(squirrel_df)
##           X        Y Unique.Squirrel.ID Hectare Shift     Date
## 1 -73.95613 40.79408     37F-PM-1014-03     37F    PM 10142018
## 2 -73.96886 40.78378     21B-AM-1019-04     21B    AM 10192018
## 3 -73.97428 40.77553     11B-PM-1014-08     11B    PM 10142018
## 4 -73.95964 40.79031     32E-PM-1017-14     32E    PM 10172018
## 5 -73.97027 40.77621     13E-AM-1017-05     13E    AM 10172018
## 6 -73.96836 40.77259     11H-AM-1010-03     11H    AM 10102018
##   Hectare.Squirrel.Number   Age Primary.Fur.Color Highlight.Fur.Color
## 1                       3                                            
## 2                       4                                            
## 3                       8                    Gray                    
## 4                      14 Adult              Gray                    
## 5                       5 Adult              Gray            Cinnamon
## 6                       3 Adult          Cinnamon               White
##   Combination.of.Primary.and.Highlight.Color
## 1                                          +
## 2                                          +
## 3                                      Gray+
## 4                                      Gray+
## 5                              Gray+Cinnamon
## 6                             Cinnamon+White
##                                                                             Color.notes
## 1                                                                                      
## 2                                                                                      
## 3                                                                                      
## 4 Nothing selected as Primary. Gray selected as Highlights. Made executive adjustments.
## 5                                                                                      
## 6                                                                                      
##       Location Above.Ground.Sighter.Measurement Specific.Location Running
## 1                                                                   FALSE
## 2                                                                   FALSE
## 3 Above Ground                               10                     FALSE
## 4                                                                   FALSE
## 5 Above Ground                                      on tree stump   FALSE
## 6                                                                   FALSE
##   Chasing Climbing Eating Foraging Other.Activities  Kuks Quaas Moans
## 1   FALSE    FALSE  FALSE    FALSE                  FALSE FALSE FALSE
## 2   FALSE    FALSE  FALSE    FALSE                  FALSE FALSE FALSE
## 3    TRUE    FALSE  FALSE    FALSE                  FALSE FALSE FALSE
## 4   FALSE    FALSE   TRUE     TRUE                  FALSE FALSE FALSE
## 5   FALSE    FALSE  FALSE     TRUE                  FALSE FALSE FALSE
## 6   FALSE    FALSE  FALSE     TRUE                  FALSE FALSE FALSE
##   Tail.flags Tail.twitches Approaches Indifferent Runs.from Other.Interactions
## 1      FALSE         FALSE      FALSE       FALSE     FALSE                   
## 2      FALSE         FALSE      FALSE       FALSE     FALSE                   
## 3      FALSE         FALSE      FALSE       FALSE     FALSE                   
## 4      FALSE         FALSE      FALSE       FALSE      TRUE                   
## 5      FALSE         FALSE      FALSE       FALSE     FALSE                   
## 6      FALSE          TRUE      FALSE        TRUE     FALSE                   
##                                     Lat.Long
## 1 POINT (-73.9561344937861 40.7940823884086)
## 2 POINT (-73.9688574691102 40.7837825208444)
## 3 POINT (-73.97428114848522 40.775533619083)
## 4 POINT (-73.9596413903948 40.7903128889029)
## 5 POINT (-73.9702676472613 40.7762126854894)
## 6 POINT (-73.9683613516225 40.7725908847499)

There are a lot of unesseccary data and seperate rows for various actions. I will drop columns I think are unessecary and pivot the action colu1ms into one “Action” column

# dropping columns
squirrel_sightings = squirrel_df[c('Unique.Squirrel.ID','Hectare','Shift','Age','Primary.Fur.Color','Running','Chasing','Climbing','Eating','Foraging')]

# pivoting dataframe
squirrel_sightings = squirrel_sightings %>%
pivot_longer(names(squirrel_sightings)[6:dim(squirrel_sightings)[2]], names_to = "Action")

# dropping FALSE (N/A) values
squirrel_clean = squirrel_sightings[squirrel_sightings['value'] == TRUE,]
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squirrel_clean = squirrel_clean[names(squirrel_clean)[1:dim(squirrel_clean)[2]-1]]

head(squirrel_clean)
## # A tibble: 6 x 6
##   Unique.Squirrel.ID Hectare Shift Age     Primary.Fur.Color Action  
##   <chr>              <chr>   <chr> <chr>   <chr>             <chr>   
## 1 11B-PM-1014-08     11B     PM    ""      Gray              Chasing 
## 2 32E-PM-1017-14     32E     PM    "Adult" Gray              Eating  
## 3 32E-PM-1017-14     32E     PM    "Adult" Gray              Foraging
## 4 13E-AM-1017-05     13E     AM    "Adult" Gray              Foraging
## 5 11H-AM-1010-03     11H     AM    "Adult" Cinnamon          Foraging
## 6 36H-AM-1010-02     36H     AM    "Adult" Gray              Foraging

What are squirrels at Central Park up to?

squirrel_clean %>%
  group_by(Action) %>%
  summarise(Percentage = n()/dim(squirrel_clean)[1]) %>%
  ggplot(mapping = aes(x = reorder(Action,-Percentage),y = Percentage)) +geom_bar(stat = 'identity') + labs(x = 'Actions', title = "What are Squirrels at Central Park up to?")

Which location has the most squirrels?

squirrel_clean %>%
  group_by(Hectare) %>%
  summarise(Count = n()) %>%
  arrange(desc(Count))%>%
  head(10) %>%
  ggplot(mapping = aes(x = reorder(Hectare,-Count),y = Count))+geom_bar(stat = 'identity') + labs(x = 'Location', title = 'Locations with the Most Squirrel Sightings')

Conclusion:

Squirrels at central park are usually either looking for or eating food. If you want to see squirrels I suggest you go to location 14E as most of the sightings are from there

2) GDP dataset

gdp_df = read.csv(gdp_url)
head(gdp_df)
##   Country.Name Country.Code        Indicator.Name    Indicator.Code X1960 X1961
## 1        Aruba          ABW GDP growth (annual %) NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG    NA    NA
## 2  Afghanistan          AFG GDP growth (annual %) NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG    NA    NA
## 3       Angola          AGO GDP growth (annual %) NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG    NA    NA
## 4      Albania          ALB GDP growth (annual %) NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG    NA    NA
## 5      Andorra          AND GDP growth (annual %) NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG    NA    NA
## 6   Arab World          ARB GDP growth (annual %) NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG    NA    NA
##   X1962 X1963 X1964 X1965 X1966 X1967 X1968 X1969 X1970    X1971    X1972
## 1    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA       NA       NA
## 2    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA       NA       NA
## 3    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA       NA       NA
## 4    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA       NA       NA
## 5    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA 4.649465 8.149743
## 6    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA    NA       NA       NA
##      X1973   X1974     X1975     X1976    X1977      X1978       X1979    X1980
## 1       NA      NA        NA        NA       NA         NA          NA       NA
## 2       NA      NA        NA        NA       NA         NA          NA       NA
## 3       NA      NA        NA        NA       NA         NA          NA       NA
## 4       NA      NA        NA        NA       NA         NA          NA       NA
## 5 7.788467 5.61879 0.5422057  3.303787 2.838576  1.4630002  0.04155719 2.208728
## 6       NA      NA        NA 15.740326 8.243803 -0.6817728 11.68988215 9.082873
##        X1981     X1982     X1983     X1984     X1985    X1986      X1987
## 1         NA        NA        NA        NA        NA       NA 16.0784314
## 2         NA        NA        NA        NA        NA       NA         NA
## 3 -4.4000012  0.000000  4.200001  6.000002  3.499999 2.900002  4.0827486
## 4  5.7456353  2.948597  1.104938 -1.251597  1.780644 5.637243 -0.7878427
## 5 -0.1324745  1.246461  1.770118  1.784687  2.321433 3.253322  5.5471222
## 6  3.0386015 -9.078660 -6.896081  1.326049 -2.366242 4.684686 -0.5397674
##       X1988       X1989     X1990       X1991     X1992      X1993    X1994
## 1 18.648649 12.12984055  3.961402   7.9628725  5.882353   7.307692 8.203903
## 2        NA          NA        NA          NA        NA         NA       NA
## 3  6.128890  0.04162146 -3.450099   0.9913593 -5.838281 -23.983417 1.339363
## 4 -1.420040  9.83654897 -9.575640 -28.0021417 -7.187111   9.559412 8.302867
## 5  5.094326  4.82703424  3.781388   2.5460029  0.929212  -1.031484 2.383188
## 6  5.671389  2.37715021 13.126828   1.5030680  4.938746   3.267514 3.203914
##       X1995     X1996      X1997    X1998     X1999    X2000     X2001
## 1  2.547144  1.185788   7.046874 1.991986  1.238042 7.616588 -2.971257
## 2        NA        NA         NA       NA        NA       NA        NA
## 3 15.000000 13.544370   7.274277 4.691146  2.181490 3.054624  4.205999
## 4 13.322333  9.099999 -10.919984 8.830088 12.889897 6.950036  8.290070
## 5  2.757499  4.649740   9.067672 3.194790  4.099081 3.528361  8.119358
## 6  2.748955  4.592264   4.224988 5.265799  1.800874 5.496228  1.563740
##        X2002    X2003     X2004     X2005     X2006     X2007       X2008
## 1 -3.2736464 1.975547  7.911563  1.214349  1.050608  1.800226 -0.09070805
## 2         NA 8.832278  1.414118 11.229715  5.357403 13.826320  3.92498382
## 3 13.6656865 2.989850 10.952862 15.028915 11.547683 14.010018 11.16613833
## 4  4.5399606 5.530051  5.509999  5.529915  5.900084  5.979982  7.49996956
## 5  4.5463622 8.694204  8.135676  5.397796  4.808689  1.553188 -5.55918637
## 6  0.5699665 5.318673  9.373925  5.747402  6.501691  4.523806  5.81119882
##         X2009     X2010        X2011     X2012     X2013    X2014     X2015
## 1 -10.5197485 -3.685029  3.446054750 -1.369863  4.198232 0.300000 5.7000009
## 2  21.3905284 14.362441  0.426354793 12.752287  5.600745 2.724543 1.4513147
## 3   0.8587126  4.403933  3.471976345  8.542188  4.954545 4.822628 0.9435716
## 4   3.3500665  3.706892  2.545321845  1.417526  1.001987 1.774487 2.2187522
## 5  -5.3028465 -1.974958 -0.008069753 -4.974444 -3.547597 2.504466 1.4341404
## 6   0.4199733  4.668194  3.748900536  6.662222  3.287271 2.505076 3.2433121
##       X2016      X2017     X2018      X2019 X2020
## 1  2.100000  1.9999991        NA         NA    NA
## 2  2.260314  2.6470032  1.189228  3.9116034    NA
## 3 -2.580050 -0.1472129 -2.003630 -0.6246443    NA
## 4  3.314805  3.8021975  4.071301  2.2400703    NA
## 5  3.709678  0.3460719  1.588765  1.8492383    NA
## 6  3.507128  0.8208465  2.079469  1.4876330    NA

I want to remove rename columns to remove the “X” and then pivot all the year columns into one ‘Year’ column. Afterwards I will remove NA values

# removing "x" from year strings
cols = names(gdp_df)
len = dim(gdp_df)[2]
for (col in cols[5:len]){
  cols[cols == col] = substr(col,2,5) 
}
names(gdp_df) = cols

# pivoting year columns to a single 'Year' column
gdp_clean = gdp_df %>%
  pivot_longer(cols = cols[5:len],names_to = "Year", values_to = 'percent_growth') %>%
  drop_na()

# separate df for country codes
country_code = unique(gdp_clean[c('Country.Name','Country.Code')])

# drop unwanted columns from gdp df

gdp_clean = gdp_clean[c('Country.Name','Year','percent_growth')]

head(gdp_clean)
## # A tibble: 6 x 3
##   Country.Name Year  percent_growth
##   <chr>        <chr>          <dbl>
## 1 Aruba        1987           16.1 
## 2 Aruba        1988           18.6 
## 3 Aruba        1989           12.1 
## 4 Aruba        1990            3.96
## 5 Aruba        1991            7.96
## 6 Aruba        1992            5.88

Country with the highest change in GDP

gdp_clean %>%
  group_by(Country.Name) %>%
  summarize(Avg_Growth = sum(percent_growth)/n())%>%
  arrange(desc(Avg_Growth)) %>%
  head(10) %>%
  ggplot(mapping = aes(x = reorder(Country.Name,Avg_Growth),y = Avg_Growth))+geom_bar(stat = 'identity') + coord_flip() +labs(x = 'Countries', title = 'Largest Average Change in GDP (1960-2020)')

Change in GDP (United States) since I was born

# subset df into united states only
us_gdp = gdp_clean[gdp_clean['Country.Name'] == 'United States' & gdp_clean['Year']>= 1997,]

us_gdp  %>%
  ggplot(mapping = aes(x = Year, y = percent_growth, group = Country.Name))+geom_line() + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90)) + labs(title = 'Change in GDP since 1997')

Colclusion

The country with the greatest average growth in GDP is Guinea. This was surprising to me especially since other countries such as China and Japan have grown so much but I believe its because they are a relatively poorer country which means higher potential growth (%) wise.

For the United States, I noticed that growth was more volatile prior to 2011. I also notice a sharp decline in growth leading into 2009 (Great Recession)

3) Candy Dataset

candy_df = read.csv(candy_url)
head(candy_df)
##   Internal.ID Q1..GOING.OUT. Q2..GENDER Q3..AGE Q4..COUNTRY
## 1    90258773                                              
## 2    90272821             No       Male      44        USA 
## 3    90272829                      Male      49         USA
## 4    90272840             No       Male      40          us
## 5    90272841             No       Male      23         usa
## 6    90272852             No       Male                    
##   Q5..STATE..PROVINCE..COUNTY..ETC Q6...100.Grand.Bar
## 1                                                    
## 2                               NM                MEH
## 3                         Virginia                   
## 4                               or                MEH
## 5                         exton pa                JOY
## 6                                                 JOY
##   Q6...Anonymous.brown.globs.that.come.in.black.and.orange.wrappers..a.k.a..Mary.Janes.
## 1                                                                                      
## 2                                                                               DESPAIR
## 3                                                                                      
## 4                                                                               DESPAIR
## 5                                                                               DESPAIR
## 6                                                                               DESPAIR
##   Q6...Any.full.sized.candy.bar Q6...Black.Jacks Q6...Bonkers..the.candy.
## 1                                                                        
## 2                           JOY              MEH                  DESPAIR
## 3                                                                        
## 4                           JOY              MEH                      MEH
## 5                           JOY          DESPAIR                      MEH
## 6                           JOY                                          
##   Q6...Bonkers..the.board.game. Q6...Bottle.Caps Q6...Box.o.Raisins
## 1                                                                  
## 2                       DESPAIR          DESPAIR            DESPAIR
## 3                                                                  
## 4                       DESPAIR              MEH            DESPAIR
## 5                       DESPAIR              MEH            DESPAIR
## 6                                            MEH                MEH
##   Q6...Broken.glow.stick Q6...Butterfinger Q6...Cadbury.Creme.Eggs
## 1                                                                 
## 2                DESPAIR           DESPAIR                     MEH
## 3                                                                 
## 4                DESPAIR               MEH                     MEH
## 5                DESPAIR               MEH                     MEH
## 6                DESPAIR               JOY                 DESPAIR
##   Q6...Candy.Corn
## 1                
## 2             MEH
## 3                
## 4         DESPAIR
## 5         DESPAIR
## 6             MEH
##   Q6...Candy.that.is.clearly.just.the.stuff.given.out.for.free.at.restaurants
## 1                                                                            
## 2                                                                     DESPAIR
## 3                                                                            
## 4                                                                     DESPAIR
## 5                                                                     DESPAIR
## 6                                                                         MEH
##   Q6...Caramellos Q6...Cash..or.other.forms.of.legal.tender Q6...Chardonnay
## 1                                                                          
## 2             MEH                                       JOY             MEH
## 3                                                                          
## 4             MEH                                       JOY             MEH
## 5             JOY                                       MEH             JOY
## 6             JOY                                       JOY             JOY
##   Q6...Chick.o.Sticks..we.donÕt.know.what.that.is. Q6...Chiclets
## 1                                                               
## 2                                          DESPAIR       DESPAIR
## 3                                                               
## 4                                              JOY           MEH
## 5                                          DESPAIR       DESPAIR
## 6                                              MEH           MEH
##   Q6...Coffee.Crisp Q6...Creepy.Religious.comics.Chick.Tracts
## 1                                                            
## 2           DESPAIR                                   DESPAIR
## 3                                                            
## 4           DESPAIR                                   DESPAIR
## 5               MEH                                   DESPAIR
## 6               JOY                                   DESPAIR
##   Q6...Dental.paraphenalia Q6...Dots Q6...Dove.Bars Q6...Fuzzy.Peaches
## 1                                                                     
## 2                  DESPAIR       MEH            JOY            DESPAIR
## 3                                                                     
## 4                  DESPAIR       JOY            JOY                MEH
## 5                  DESPAIR       MEH            JOY            DESPAIR
## 6                      MEH       MEH            JOY                   
##   Q6...Generic.Brand.Acetaminophen Q6...Glow.sticks Q6...Goo.Goo.Clusters
## 1                                                                        
## 2                          DESPAIR          DESPAIR               DESPAIR
## 3                                                                        
## 4                              MEH              JOY                   JOY
## 5                          DESPAIR          DESPAIR                   MEH
## 6                          DESPAIR              MEH                   JOY
##   Q6...Good.N..Plenty Q6...Gum.from.baseball.cards Q6...Gummy.Bears.straight.up
## 1                                                                              
## 2                 MEH                      DESPAIR                          MEH
## 3                                                                              
## 4                 MEH                      DESPAIR                          JOY
## 5                 MEH                      DESPAIR                          JOY
## 6                 MEH                      DESPAIR                          MEH
##   Q6...Hard.Candy Q6...Healthy.Fruit Q6...Heath.Bar
## 1                                                  
## 2             MEH            DESPAIR            MEH
## 3                                                  
## 4             MEH                MEH        DESPAIR
## 5             MEH            DESPAIR        DESPAIR
## 6             MEH                MEH            JOY
##   Q6...Hershey.s.Dark.Chocolate Q6...HersheyÕs.Milk.Chocolate
## 1                                                            
## 2                           JOY                           JOY
## 3                                                            
## 4                           MEH                           MEH
## 5                           JOY                           MEH
## 6                           JOY                           MEH
##   Q6...Hershey.s.Kisses Q6...Hugs..actual.physical.hugs.
## 1                                                       
## 2                   MEH                          DESPAIR
## 3                                                       
## 4                   MEH                              MEH
## 5                   MEH                          DESPAIR
## 6                   MEH                              MEH
##   Q6...Jolly.Rancher..bad.flavor. Q6...Jolly.Ranchers..good.flavor.
## 1                                                                  
## 2                         DESPAIR                               MEH
## 3                                                                  
## 4                             MEH                               MEH
## 5                             MEH                               JOY
## 6                             MEH                               MEH
##   Q6...JoyJoy..Mit.Iodine.. Q6...Junior.Mints Q6...Senior.Mints
## 1                                                              
## 2                   DESPAIR           DESPAIR           DESPAIR
## 3                                                              
## 4                   DESPAIR           DESPAIR           DESPAIR
## 5                       MEH               JOY           DESPAIR
## 6                                         JOY                  
##   Q6...Kale.smoothie Q6...Kinder.Happy.Hippo Q6...Kit.Kat Q6...LaffyTaffy
## 1                                                                        
## 2            DESPAIR                 DESPAIR          JOY         DESPAIR
## 3                                                                        
## 4            DESPAIR                     MEH          MEH             JOY
## 5            DESPAIR                     JOY          JOY             JOY
## 6            DESPAIR                                  JOY             MEH
##   Q6...LemonHeads Q6...Licorice..not.black. Q6...Licorice..yes.black.
## 1                                                                    
## 2             MEH                       MEH                       JOY
## 3                                                                    
## 4             JOY                       MEH                       JOY
## 5             JOY                       MEH                   DESPAIR
## 6             MEH                       MEH                       MEH
##   Q6...Lindt.Truffle Q6...Lollipops Q6...Mars Q6...Maynards Q6...Mike.and.Ike
## 1                                                                            
## 2                MEH        DESPAIR   DESPAIR       DESPAIR               MEH
## 3                                                                            
## 4                JOY        DESPAIR       JOY           MEH               MEH
## 5                JOY            MEH       MEH       DESPAIR               MEH
## 6                JOY            MEH       JOY                             JOY
##   Q6...Milk.Duds Q6...Milky.Way Q6...Regular.M.Ms Q6...Peanut.M.MÕs
## 1                                                                  
## 2            MEH            JOY               JOY               MEH
## 3                                                                  
## 4        DESPAIR            JOY               MEH               JOY
## 5            MEH            JOY               JOY               JOY
## 6            JOY            JOY               JOY               JOY
##   Q6...Blue.M.M.s Q6...Red.M.M.s Q6...Green.Party.M.M.s Q6...Independent.M.M.s
## 1                                                                             
## 2             JOY            JOY                    JOY                    JOY
## 3                                                                             
## 4             MEH            MEH                    MEH                    MEH
## 5             JOY            JOY                    JOY                    JOY
## 6             JOY            JOY                                              
##   Q6...Abstained.from.M.M.ing. Q6...Minibags.of.chips Q6...Mint.Kisses
## 1                                                                     
## 2                      DESPAIR                DESPAIR              MEH
## 3                                                                     
## 4                          MEH                DESPAIR          DESPAIR
## 5                          MEH                DESPAIR              JOY
## 6                                                 JOY              JOY
##   Q6...Mint.Juleps Q6...Mr..Goodbar Q6...Necco.Wafers Q6...Nerds
## 1                                                               
## 2          DESPAIR          DESPAIR           DESPAIR    DESPAIR
## 3                                                               
## 4              MEH              MEH           DESPAIR        MEH
## 5              JOY              MEH           DESPAIR        JOY
## 6              JOY              JOY               MEH        JOY
##   Q6...Nestle.Crunch Q6...Now.n.Laters Q6...Peeps Q6...Pencils Q6...Pixy.Stix
## 1                                                                            
## 2                JOY           DESPAIR    DESPAIR      DESPAIR        DESPAIR
## 3                                                                            
## 4                MEH               MEH    DESPAIR      DESPAIR        DESPAIR
## 5                JOY               JOY        MEH      DESPAIR            JOY
## 6                MEH               MEH    DESPAIR      DESPAIR            MEH
##   Q6...Real.Housewives.of.Orange.County.Season.9.Blue.Ray
## 1                                                        
## 2                                                 DESPAIR
## 3                                                        
## 4                                                 DESPAIR
## 5                                                 DESPAIR
## 6                                                 DESPAIR
##   Q6...ReeseÕs.Peanut.Butter.Cups Q6...Reese.s.Pieces Q6...Reggie.Jackson.Bar
## 1                                                                            
## 2                             JOY                 JOY                 DESPAIR
## 3                                                                            
## 4                             JOY                 MEH                     MEH
## 5                             JOY                 JOY                     MEH
## 6                             JOY                 JOY                 DESPAIR
##   Q6...Rolos Q6...Sandwich.sized.bags.filled.with.BooBerry.Crunch Q6...Skittles
## 1                                                                              
## 2        JOY                                              DESPAIR       DESPAIR
## 3                                                                              
## 4        MEH                                              DESPAIR       DESPAIR
## 5        JOY                                                                JOY
## 6        JOY                                              DESPAIR           JOY
##   Q6...Smarties..American. Q6...Smarties..Commonwealth. Q6...Snickers
## 1                                                                    
## 2                  DESPAIR                      DESPAIR           MEH
## 3                                                                    
## 4                  DESPAIR                          MEH           JOY
## 5                      JOY                      DESPAIR              
## 6                      JOY                          JOY           JOY
##   Q6...Sourpatch.Kids..i.e..abominations.of.nature. Q6...Spotted.Dick
## 1                                                                    
## 2                                           DESPAIR           DESPAIR
## 3                                                                    
## 4                                               MEH           DESPAIR
## 5                                               MEH           DESPAIR
## 6                                           DESPAIR           DESPAIR
##   Q6...Starburst Q6...Sweet.Tarts Q6...Swedish.Fish
## 1                                                  
## 2            MEH          DESPAIR               MEH
## 3                                                  
## 4            MEH              MEH               JOY
## 5            JOY              JOY               MEH
## 6            MEH              MEH               MEH
##   Q6...Sweetums..a.friend.to.diabetes. Q6...Take.5 Q6...Tic.Tacs
## 1                                                               
## 2                              DESPAIR     DESPAIR       DESPAIR
## 3                                                               
## 4                                  MEH         JOY           MEH
## 5                              DESPAIR         MEH       DESPAIR
## 6                                                            MEH
##   Q6...Those.odd.marshmallow.circus.peanut.things Q6...Three.Musketeers
## 1                                                                      
## 2                                         DESPAIR                   JOY
## 3                                                                      
## 4                                         DESPAIR               DESPAIR
## 5                                         DESPAIR                   JOY
## 6                                         DESPAIR                   JOY
##   Q6...Tolberone.something.or.other Q6...Trail.Mix Q6...Twix
## 1                                                           
## 2                               JOY        DESPAIR       JOY
## 3                                                           
## 4                               JOY            MEH       JOY
## 5                               JOY        DESPAIR       JOY
## 6                               JOY            MEH       JOY
##   Q6...Vials.of.pure.high.fructose.corn.syrup..for.main.lining.into.your.vein
## 1                                                                            
## 2                                                                     DESPAIR
## 3                                                                            
## 4                                                                     DESPAIR
## 5                                                                         MEH
## 6                                                                     DESPAIR
##   Q6...Vicodin Q6...Whatchamacallit.Bars Q6...White.Bread
## 1                                                        
## 2      DESPAIR                   DESPAIR          DESPAIR
## 3                                                        
## 4          JOY                       JOY          DESPAIR
## 5          JOY                       JOY          DESPAIR
## 6      DESPAIR                       JOY          DESPAIR
##   Q6...Whole.Wheat.anything Q6...York.Peppermint.Patties
## 1                                                       
## 2                   DESPAIR                      DESPAIR
## 3                                                       
## 4                   DESPAIR                      DESPAIR
## 5                   DESPAIR                          JOY
## 6                   DESPAIR                          JOY
##                                                                                  Q7..JOY.OTHER
## 1                                                                                             
## 2                                                                                       Mounds
## 3                                                                                             
## 4 Reese's crispy crunchy bars, 5th avenue bars, ferrero rocher, dries fruit other than raisins
## 5                                                                                             
## 6                                                                                             
##   Q8..DESPAIR.OTHER                                          Q9..OTHER.COMMENTS
## 1                                                                              
## 2                   Bottom line is Twix is really the only candy worth eating. 
## 3                                                                              
## 4                                                        Raisins can go to hell
## 5                                                                              
## 6                                                                              
##       Q10..DRESS X Q11..DAY Q12..MEDIA..Daily.Dish. Q12..MEDIA..Science.
## 1                                                NA                   NA
## 2 White and gold     Sunday                      NA                    1
## 3                                                NA                   NA
## 4 White and gold     Sunday                      NA                    1
## 5 White and gold     Friday                      NA                    1
## 6                                                NA                    1
##   Q12..MEDIA..ESPN. Q12..MEDIA..Yahoo. Click.Coordinates..x..y.
## 1                NA                 NA                         
## 2                NA                 NA                 (84, 25)
## 3                NA                 NA                         
## 4                NA                 NA                 (75, 23)
## 5                NA                 NA                 (70, 10)
## 6                NA                 NA                 (75, 23)

Noticed that there are a lot of characters such as “Q#” and “.” in column names and I want to remove those

length = dim(candy_df)[2]
columns = names(candy_df)
pattern = '^[a-z][0-9]$'

# removing "Q#" from strings
for (column in columns){
  new_str = ""
  for (item in strsplit(column,"\\.")[[1]]){
    if (grepl(pattern, item, ignore.case = TRUE) == FALSE){
      new_str = paste(new_str,item)
    }
  }
  columns[columns == column] = trimws(new_str)
}
names(candy_df) = columns
head(candy_df)
##   Internal ID GOING OUT GENDER AGE COUNTRY STATE  PROVINCE  COUNTY  ETC
## 1    90258773                                                          
## 2    90272821        No   Male  44    USA                            NM
## 3    90272829             Male  49     USA                     Virginia
## 4    90272840        No   Male  40      us                           or
## 5    90272841        No   Male  23     usa                     exton pa
## 6    90272852        No   Male                                         
##   100 Grand Bar
## 1              
## 2           MEH
## 3              
## 4           MEH
## 5           JOY
## 6           JOY
##   Anonymous brown globs that come in black and orange wrappers  a k a  Mary Janes
## 1                                                                                
## 2                                                                         DESPAIR
## 3                                                                                
## 4                                                                         DESPAIR
## 5                                                                         DESPAIR
## 6                                                                         DESPAIR
##   Any full sized candy bar Black Jacks Bonkers  the candy
## 1                                                        
## 2                      JOY         MEH            DESPAIR
## 3                                                        
## 4                      JOY         MEH                MEH
## 5                      JOY     DESPAIR                MEH
## 6                      JOY                               
##   Bonkers  the board game Bottle Caps Box o Raisins Broken glow stick
## 1                                                                    
## 2                 DESPAIR     DESPAIR       DESPAIR           DESPAIR
## 3                                                                    
## 4                 DESPAIR         MEH       DESPAIR           DESPAIR
## 5                 DESPAIR         MEH       DESPAIR           DESPAIR
## 6                                 MEH           MEH           DESPAIR
##   Butterfinger Cadbury Creme Eggs Candy Corn
## 1                                           
## 2      DESPAIR                MEH        MEH
## 3                                           
## 4          MEH                MEH    DESPAIR
## 5          MEH                MEH    DESPAIR
## 6          JOY            DESPAIR        MEH
##   Candy that is clearly just the stuff given out for free at restaurants
## 1                                                                       
## 2                                                                DESPAIR
## 3                                                                       
## 4                                                                DESPAIR
## 5                                                                DESPAIR
## 6                                                                    MEH
##   Caramellos Cash  or other forms of legal tender Chardonnay
## 1                                                           
## 2        MEH                                  JOY        MEH
## 3                                                           
## 4        MEH                                  JOY        MEH
## 5        JOY                                  MEH        JOY
## 6        JOY                                  JOY        JOY
##   Chick o Sticks  we donÕt know what that is Chiclets Coffee Crisp
## 1                                                                 
## 2                                    DESPAIR  DESPAIR      DESPAIR
## 3                                                                 
## 4                                        JOY      MEH      DESPAIR
## 5                                    DESPAIR  DESPAIR          MEH
## 6                                        MEH      MEH          JOY
##   Creepy Religious comics Chick Tracts Dental paraphenalia Dots Dove Bars
## 1                                                                        
## 2                              DESPAIR             DESPAIR  MEH       JOY
## 3                                                                        
## 4                              DESPAIR             DESPAIR  JOY       JOY
## 5                              DESPAIR             DESPAIR  MEH       JOY
## 6                              DESPAIR                 MEH  MEH       JOY
##   Fuzzy Peaches Generic Brand Acetaminophen Glow sticks Goo Goo Clusters
## 1                                                                       
## 2       DESPAIR                     DESPAIR     DESPAIR          DESPAIR
## 3                                                                       
## 4           MEH                         MEH         JOY              JOY
## 5       DESPAIR                     DESPAIR     DESPAIR              MEH
## 6                                   DESPAIR         MEH              JOY
##   Good N  Plenty Gum from baseball cards Gummy Bears straight up Hard Candy
## 1                                                                          
## 2            MEH                 DESPAIR                     MEH        MEH
## 3                                                                          
## 4            MEH                 DESPAIR                     JOY        MEH
## 5            MEH                 DESPAIR                     JOY        MEH
## 6            MEH                 DESPAIR                     MEH        MEH
##   Healthy Fruit Heath Bar Hershey s Dark Chocolate HersheyÕs Milk Chocolate
## 1                                                                          
## 2       DESPAIR       MEH                      JOY                      JOY
## 3                                                                          
## 4           MEH   DESPAIR                      MEH                      MEH
## 5       DESPAIR   DESPAIR                      JOY                      MEH
## 6           MEH       JOY                      JOY                      MEH
##   Hershey s Kisses Hugs  actual physical hugs Jolly Rancher  bad flavor
## 1                                                                      
## 2              MEH                    DESPAIR                   DESPAIR
## 3                                                                      
## 4              MEH                        MEH                       MEH
## 5              MEH                    DESPAIR                       MEH
## 6              MEH                        MEH                       MEH
##   Jolly Ranchers  good flavor JoyJoy  Mit Iodine Junior Mints Senior Mints
## 1                                                                         
## 2                         MEH            DESPAIR      DESPAIR      DESPAIR
## 3                                                                         
## 4                         MEH            DESPAIR      DESPAIR      DESPAIR
## 5                         JOY                MEH          JOY      DESPAIR
## 6                         MEH                             JOY             
##   Kale smoothie Kinder Happy Hippo Kit Kat LaffyTaffy LemonHeads
## 1                                                               
## 2       DESPAIR            DESPAIR     JOY    DESPAIR        MEH
## 3                                                               
## 4       DESPAIR                MEH     MEH        JOY        JOY
## 5       DESPAIR                JOY     JOY        JOY        JOY
## 6       DESPAIR                        JOY        MEH        MEH
##   Licorice  not black Licorice  yes black Lindt Truffle Lollipops    Mars
## 1                                                                        
## 2                 MEH                 JOY           MEH   DESPAIR DESPAIR
## 3                                                                        
## 4                 MEH                 JOY           JOY   DESPAIR     JOY
## 5                 MEH             DESPAIR           JOY       MEH     MEH
## 6                 MEH                 MEH           JOY       MEH     JOY
##   Maynards Mike and Ike Milk Duds Milky Way Regular M Ms Peanut M MÕs
## 1                                                                    
## 2  DESPAIR          MEH       MEH       JOY          JOY          MEH
## 3                                                                    
## 4      MEH          MEH   DESPAIR       JOY          MEH          JOY
## 5  DESPAIR          MEH       MEH       JOY          JOY          JOY
## 6                   JOY       JOY       JOY          JOY          JOY
##   Blue M M s Red M M s Green Party M M s Independent M M s
## 1                                                         
## 2        JOY       JOY               JOY               JOY
## 3                                                         
## 4        MEH       MEH               MEH               MEH
## 5        JOY       JOY               JOY               JOY
## 6        JOY       JOY                                    
##   Abstained from M M ing Minibags of chips Mint Kisses Mint Juleps Mr  Goodbar
## 1                                                                             
## 2                DESPAIR           DESPAIR         MEH     DESPAIR     DESPAIR
## 3                                                                             
## 4                    MEH           DESPAIR     DESPAIR         MEH         MEH
## 5                    MEH           DESPAIR         JOY         JOY         MEH
## 6                                      JOY         JOY         JOY         JOY
##   Necco Wafers   Nerds Nestle Crunch Now n Laters   Peeps Pencils Pixy Stix
## 1                                                                          
## 2      DESPAIR DESPAIR           JOY      DESPAIR DESPAIR DESPAIR   DESPAIR
## 3                                                                          
## 4      DESPAIR     MEH           MEH          MEH DESPAIR DESPAIR   DESPAIR
## 5      DESPAIR     JOY           JOY          JOY     MEH DESPAIR       JOY
## 6          MEH     JOY           MEH          MEH DESPAIR DESPAIR       MEH
##   Real Housewives of Orange County Season 9 Blue Ray ReeseÕs Peanut Butter Cups
## 1                                                                              
## 2                                            DESPAIR                        JOY
## 3                                                                              
## 4                                            DESPAIR                        JOY
## 5                                            DESPAIR                        JOY
## 6                                            DESPAIR                        JOY
##   Reese s Pieces Reggie Jackson Bar Rolos
## 1                                        
## 2            JOY            DESPAIR   JOY
## 3                                        
## 4            MEH                MEH   MEH
## 5            JOY                MEH   JOY
## 6            JOY            DESPAIR   JOY
##   Sandwich sized bags filled with BooBerry Crunch Skittles Smarties  American
## 1                                                                            
## 2                                         DESPAIR  DESPAIR            DESPAIR
## 3                                                                            
## 4                                         DESPAIR  DESPAIR            DESPAIR
## 5                                                      JOY                JOY
## 6                                         DESPAIR      JOY                JOY
##   Smarties  Commonwealth Snickers Sourpatch Kids  i e  abominations of nature
## 1                                                                            
## 2                DESPAIR      MEH                                     DESPAIR
## 3                                                                            
## 4                    MEH      JOY                                         MEH
## 5                DESPAIR                                                  MEH
## 6                    JOY      JOY                                     DESPAIR
##   Spotted Dick Starburst Sweet Tarts Swedish Fish
## 1                                                
## 2      DESPAIR       MEH     DESPAIR          MEH
## 3                                                
## 4      DESPAIR       MEH         MEH          JOY
## 5      DESPAIR       JOY         JOY          MEH
## 6      DESPAIR       MEH         MEH          MEH
##   Sweetums  a friend to diabetes  Take 5 Tic Tacs
## 1                                                
## 2                        DESPAIR DESPAIR  DESPAIR
## 3                                                
## 4                            MEH     JOY      MEH
## 5                        DESPAIR     MEH  DESPAIR
## 6                                             MEH
##   Those odd marshmallow circus peanut things Three Musketeers
## 1                                                            
## 2                                    DESPAIR              JOY
## 3                                                            
## 4                                    DESPAIR          DESPAIR
## 5                                    DESPAIR              JOY
## 6                                    DESPAIR              JOY
##   Tolberone something or other Trail Mix Twix
## 1                                            
## 2                          JOY   DESPAIR  JOY
## 3                                            
## 4                          JOY       MEH  JOY
## 5                          JOY   DESPAIR  JOY
## 6                          JOY       MEH  JOY
##   Vials of pure high fructose corn syrup  for main lining into your vein
## 1                                                                       
## 2                                                                DESPAIR
## 3                                                                       
## 4                                                                DESPAIR
## 5                                                                    MEH
## 6                                                                DESPAIR
##   Vicodin Whatchamacallit Bars White Bread Whole Wheat anything
## 1                                                              
## 2 DESPAIR              DESPAIR     DESPAIR              DESPAIR
## 3                                                              
## 4     JOY                  JOY     DESPAIR              DESPAIR
## 5     JOY                  JOY     DESPAIR              DESPAIR
## 6 DESPAIR                  JOY     DESPAIR              DESPAIR
##   York Peppermint Patties
## 1                        
## 2                 DESPAIR
## 3                        
## 4                 DESPAIR
## 5                     JOY
## 6                     JOY
##                                                                                      JOY OTHER
## 1                                                                                             
## 2                                                                                       Mounds
## 3                                                                                             
## 4 Reese's crispy crunchy bars, 5th avenue bars, ferrero rocher, dries fruit other than raisins
## 5                                                                                             
## 6                                                                                             
##   DESPAIR OTHER                                              OTHER COMMENTS
## 1                                                                          
## 2               Bottom line is Twix is really the only candy worth eating. 
## 3                                                                          
## 4                                                    Raisins can go to hell
## 5                                                                          
## 6                                                                          
##       Q10  DRESS X Q11  DAY Q12  MEDIA  Daily Dish Q12  MEDIA  Science
## 1                                               NA                  NA
## 2 White and gold     Sunday                     NA                   1
## 3                                               NA                  NA
## 4 White and gold     Sunday                     NA                   1
## 5 White and gold     Friday                     NA                   1
## 6                                               NA                   1
##   Q12  MEDIA  ESPN Q12  MEDIA  Yahoo Click Coordinates  x  y
## 1               NA                NA                        
## 2               NA                NA                (84, 25)
## 3               NA                NA                        
## 4               NA                NA                (75, 23)
## 5               NA                NA                (70, 10)
## 6               NA                NA                (75, 23)

Similar to the last dataset this one is very wide and I want to pivot all the candy columns into one with a rating column that has the values: “MEH”, “JOY”, “DESPAIR”

# pivoting candy data
candy_clean = candy_df %>%
  pivot_longer(columns[7:(length-11)],names_to = "Candy", values_to = "Mood")

# Separate out repeated information
candy_id = unique(candy_clean[c('Internal ID','GOING OUT','GENDER','AGE','COUNTRY')])

# Drop columns not needed for analysis
candy_clean = candy_clean[c('Internal ID','Candy','Mood')]
candy_clean = candy_clean[candy_clean["Mood"] != "",]
head(candy_clean)
## # A tibble: 6 x 3
##   `Internal ID` Candy                                                     Mood  
##           <int> <chr>                                                     <chr> 
## 1      90272821 100 Grand Bar                                             MEH   
## 2      90272821 Anonymous brown globs that come in black and orange wrap~ DESPA~
## 3      90272821 Any full sized candy bar                                  JOY   
## 4      90272821 Black Jacks                                               MEH   
## 5      90272821 Bonkers  the candy                                        DESPA~
## 6      90272821 Bonkers  the board game                                   DESPA~

Joy vs Despair

candy_clean%>% 
  group_by(Mood)%>%
  summarise(Percent = n()/dim(candy_clean)[1]) %>%
  ggplot(mapping = aes(x = Mood, y = Percent)) + geom_bar(stat = 'identity') + labs(title = "")

Which candy do people like the most?

joy = candy_clean[candy_clean['Mood'] == 'JOY',]
joy %>% 
  group_by(Candy)%>%
  summarize(Count = n())%>%
  arrange(desc(Count))%>%
  head(10) %>%
  ggplot(mapping = aes(x = reorder(Candy,Count),y = Count))+geom_bar(stat = 'identity') +coord_flip() + labs(x = 'Candy', title = "Which Candy Brings People Joy?")

Conclusion

More candies bring people Joy than Despair… people just want a full sized candy bar.