| candy_rankings {fivethirtyeight} | R Documentation |
Candy Power Ranking
Description
The raw data behind the story "The Ultimate Halloween Candy Power Ranking" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-ultimate-halloween-candy-power-ranking/.
Usage
candy_rankings
Format
A data frame with 85 rows representing Halloween candy and 13 variables:
- competitorname
The name of the Halloween candy.
- chocolate
Does it contain chocolate?
- fruity
Is it fruit flavored?
- caramel
Is there caramel in the candy?
- peanutyalmondy
Does it contain peanuts, peanut butter or almonds?
- nougat
Does it contain nougat?
- crispedricewafer
Does it contain crisped rice, wafers, or a cookie component?
- hard
Is it a hard candy?
- bar
Is it a candy bar?
- pluribus
Is it one of many candies in a bag or box?
- sugarpercent
The percentile of sugar it falls under within the data set.
- pricepercent
The unit price percentile compared to the rest of the set.
- winpercent
The overall win percentage according to 269,000 matchups.
Source
See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/candy-power-ranking
Examples
# To convert data frame to tidy data (long) format, run:
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(stringr)
candy_rankings_tidy <- candy_rankings %>%
pivot_longer(-c(competitorname, sugarpercent, pricepercent, winpercent),
names_to = "characteristics", values_to = "present") %>%
mutate(present = as.logical(present)) %>%
arrange(competitorname)