##Introduction

I got this information from Kaggle, It is looking at different types of rum. I choose this because rum is my favorite liquor. When I turned 18, my parents took me to Grand Cayman Island, where i tried locally made rums. It was the best trip i have ever been on, and to this day I still enjoy Rum the most out of all liquors.

In this analysis I will be comparing rums by price, location made, sugar to make, and type of rum. I personally think light rum is the best, so i will be interested to see what others think.

I found this data on Kaggle by PEERCHRISTENSEN.

##Data While the variables are pretty basic, i wanted to make sure everyone is on the same page, so here is the data dictionary.

Explanation of the Variables used
Name Name of the bottle
Category type of rum (light, spiced, dark, gold, aged, flavored, and overproof(normally 50% or higher) )
Country Orgin of distillery
Rating average rating
Raters number of raters
Price price per bottle
Sugar grams of sugar per bottle produced

Here are some simple statistics about the data. Mostly about the pricing of of the different categories of rum.

## # A tibble: 8 × 7
##   Category      `count by category` average pr…¹ stand…² media…³ maxim…⁴ Avera…⁵
##   <chr>                       <int>        <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>
## 1 Aged                          235         63.9   43.7     52.5   286.     7.53
## 2 Dark                           16         29.2   12.3     29.2    44.2    5.93
## 3 Flavored                       24         23.9    9.34    19.7    34.3    5.48
## 4 Gold                           59         24.3   14.5     20.7    72.5    6.44
## 5 Light                          36         18.3    6.18    16.3    34.7    5.74
## 6 Overproof                       9         38.6    6.88    37.4    49.9    6.47
## 7 Rhum Agricole                  18         58.0   22.7     58.1    99.4    7.16
## 8 Spiced                         31         35.1   23.5     30.8    80.0    6.49
## # … with abbreviated variable names ¹​`average price per category`,
## #   ²​`standard deviation of price by category`, ³​`median price by category`,
## #   ⁴​`maximum price by category`, ⁵​`Average rating by category`

##Visualizations

Which country produces the most rum? I would assume it is the Jamaica.

Turns out Dominic Republic, with 47 different bottles.

Does rating change based on how many raters there are? The more ratings the higher the rating scored.

It seems that most rums have less than 25 reviews. Lets try again with them filtered to see.

There are no rums with a rating lower than 3 with more than 25 reviews. But overall it looks like there is not a correlation. I thought there would be voter bias, where if a lot of people are voting they would vote higher. But there may be voter bias where people may change their vote when they see so many people voted this way.

Lets look at price ver rating this time, to see if people tend to pay more for higher rated rums.

There is an obvious increase in price as the rating goes up. This makes sense, as a company if people like your product you might as well increase the price.

Do people prefer rums with more sugar or less?

Almost all of the bottles are between 0 and 50 grams, which tells me producers want to keep sugar down as much as possible. The Highest reviewed bottles are between 9 and 51 grams. Most bottles (79) have zero sugar. This surprised me because rum is from molasses, a residue from sugarcane.

I personally really like sweet rum, normally mixed with coke or pineapple. I assumed I would have like rum around the 50 - 100 grams of sugar, it turns out Bacardi ranges from 7-25 grams.

Which category of rum is the favorite by type (I am voting for light rum)? To make it easier to view, we are limiting it to the four most popular (Aged, gold, light, and spiced).

Aged rum is by far the most popular. It was by in large the majority of rums reviewed. I would assume this is because when you get into rating liquors, you would probably be a little older. And as you age, your taste also matures into liking more advanced rums.

As a bartender, this really surprises me because I have never worked at a bar with Aged Rum, it is always light, gold, or spiced, and occasionally dark. These rum drinkers must be sipping their rum at home.

##Data scrapped from Rum Ratings .com

I found a website called Rum Ratings, and it was perfect to look at a different point of view of the same data. Lets look at the distribution of ratings

Not shockingly, most bottles fell into the 6-8 rating with rum ratings too.

Now, lets look at the amount of bottles per category.

## # A tibble: 8 × 2
##   Category  count
##   <chr>     <int>
## 1 Aged         86
## 2 Agricole      1
## 3 Dark          5
## 4 Flavored      2
## 5 Gold         13
## 6 Light         5
## 7 Overproof     1
## 8 Spiced        7

Aged rum has a huge amount. Over 600% more Aged rum than the next highest, Gold Rum.

Lets look at rum raters distribution of reviews based on the type of rum.

Once again aged rum Controls the data. We removed over proofed, Agricola, and flavored rum due to there not being enough samples. But as you can see the reviewers are big fans of Aged and hardly drinkers of any other type. Not a single rum, outside of aged, received a score over 8.

Through this project, I have come to realize I am worse than a whiskey snob, I am a tasteless hack that likes light rum. I need to step my game up and start drinking Aged Rums like the true lovers of rum.